Staff Profile

Ayomikun Ogunyemi is a Research Assistant with the National Institute of Health Research Innovation Observatory that sits within the Population Health Sciences Institute. She supports the gathering, tracking, and reporting of healthcare innovation and the delivery of a range of outputs, such as technology briefings. She is a member of the Evidence Synthesis Group and a clinical effectiveness team member of the External Assessment Group involved in health technology assessments.

She believes that research answers questions and may provide solutions to issues in all fields. She holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree and a Master of Public Health degree. She has worked in a multinational pharmaceutical company as a senior medical representative and as a community pharmacist, where she was the community health project manager. She is also a certified weight management consultant.

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The NIHR Innovation Observatory is a world leading health and care innovation scanning centre providing data-driven insights to foster innovation and equitable access to high quality care. We aim to transform health systems and improve population health by providing advanced data-driven insights that foster innovation and equitable access to high quality care. At the core of our work is the development of data-driven methods to identify, capture and synthesise intelligence on new health innovations. We develop and share cutting edge methods in horizon scanning, building capacity in the systems across the public, voluntary and industry sectors.

We deliver essential intelligence and insights about medicines and MedTech innovation to the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE), NHS England, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), the NIHR, the UK Health Security Agency, the Department for Health and Social Care and industry - allowing these organisations to prepare for policies, regulation and frontline delivery for new, emerging and disruptive technologies.

Her research interests are in interventions and behaviours that can contribute to improving the health of the public. She is also interested in Evidence Synthesis and presenting the findings in novel ways, including the translation of intelligence/data using dashboards and novel visualisation. My main interests fall into the following themes:

• Horizon and future scanning
• Health Technology Assessments
• Systematic reviews/Rapid reviews