Global Health Seminar Series: Professor Richard Lilford CBE

The UCL Institute for Global Health's Global Health Seminar Series is a dynamic and inclusive forum for exploring key issues in global health. Open to anyone with an interest in the field including academics, current and prospective students, and professionals working in global health, the series offers thought-provoking presentations and discussions led by a diverse range of expert speakers.

Each event provides an opportunity to engage with cutting-edge research, policy debates, and real-world experiences from across the global health landscape. Seminars will be held either in-person or online.

Whether you're looking to deepen your understanding, connect with others in the field, or stay informed about emerging challenges and innovations, we welcome you to join us.

About the speaker

Professor Richard Lilford has pursued a successful career in medicine for over 40 years, specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology and more recently, health service research. He has research methodological expertise in the evaluation of complex interventions and prospective health economic evaluations of service delivery interventions. He has designed a framework for the evaluation of complex interventions that draws a crucial distinction between targeted and generic service interventions and is also interested in Bayesian statistics, medical ethics, clinical trials, step-wedge cluster trials, and multiple-indication reviews. He is also invested in global health research, including health and sanitation in low and middle-income countries, treatment and prevention of leprosy and Buruli ulcers, and improving health in slums.

Richard is Director of the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration West Midlands (ARC WM), the NIHR Midlands Patient Safety Research Collaboration and the NIHR Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation (RIGHT) Programme for the treatment of Leprosy and Buruli Ulcers, and an NIHR Global Health £4m grant on Reducing Delays in Cancer Care in sub-Saharan Africa. He has published over 400 original research papers and is an investigator on over £35 million worth of government, industry and charity sponsored research grants.

In 2018 he was awarded a CBE in recognition of his services to health research.