Ada Achinanya-Nwadiani
Research Associate
Profile
Biography
Ada joined the York Trials Unit in April 2024 as a research associate to work on the 5-year NIHR-funded UPTURN study, which aims to support people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), particularly from ethnic minority groups.
With over five years of post-doctoral experience as a qualitative researcher, she’s worked extensively on projects spanning fertility care, inflammatory bowel disease and mental health. Her work includes capacity-building in low-middle-income countries, policy development with the Gambian Ministry of Health, and creating interventions for young people with chronic illnesses.
From 2022-23, Ada was the lead qualitative researcher on an NIHR-funded study along with a team from Sheffield Health and Social Care to understand services for people with complex mental health difficulties. These are people diagnosed with personality disorders, childhood and adulthood traumas, self-harm and complex PTSD. Her work included recruitment, conducting several interviews with the patients and healthcare professionals, analysing the data, writing reports, presenting the work at national conferences and developing a toolkit which could help primary care providers better identify these groups of patients.
Qualifications
- Associate Fellow Higher Education Academy
- PhD Reproductive Medicine, University of Sheffield
- MSc Reproductive Medicine, University of Sheffield
- BSc Medical Laboratory Science (Haematology), University of Ghana, Accra.
Contact details
@healthsciyork