Staff Profile
Tumi Sotire
Research Assistant
- Email: tumi.sotire@ncl.ac.uk
- Address: Population Health Sciences Institute
Faculty of Medical Sciences
Newcastle University
Background
Background
I currently work as a research assistant in the Health Economics Group
Prior to this role, I worked as a research assistant in the Evidence Synthesis Group.
Qualification
Bachelors of Science in Medical Science with Professional Training Year University of Exeter
Masters of Science Health Economics at the University of York
Research
Current Project:
- The effectiveness of self-management interventions to improve the quality of cancer survivors
- The diagnostic accuracy of diagnostic interventions in the relatives of patients with familial hypercholesterolemia
- The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Oral Nutritional Interventions in malnourished frail elderly people
- The clinical and cost-effectiveness of Fludrocortisone and Midodrine for the treatment of Orthostatic Hypotension
- The cost-effectiveness of Optus AI in the diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy in patients with diabetes
Research Interest
- Methods used in economic evaluations and evidence synthesis
- inequalities
- Global Health Economics
- The economics of Neurodiversity
- I am also an advisory board member of Birbeck University's Centre for Neurodiversity at Work