Prof Steph Taylor

Stephanie Taylor is Professor in Public health and Primary Care at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, where she is Deputy Dean for Research Impact.  She also holds an Honorary Consultant position in Public Health at Barts NHS Trust and is Deputy Lead for the North Thames NIHR CLAHRC (Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care) theme: “Optimising behaviour and engagement with care” and co-lead of the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research Self-Management Support Platform.

She is a recognised expert in the field of research on supporting self-management in long term conditions. Her research programme focuses on complex, adjunctive interventions for people with long term conditions with a particular emphasis on people with psychological co-morbidities or those with advanced disease and significant disability.  She has been an expert advisor to the World Health Organisation on self-care in non-communicable diseases and recently advised the Irish Health Executive on the development of a new national self-management support strategy.