Doreen Tembo leads PEDRI’s strategy. At Health Data Research UK she is the Head of Public Involvement and Engagement and is also Interim Head of Alliance for the UK Health Data Research Alliance.
Doreen brings research, partnership and stakeholder development and management experience from the national and global health research sector having held leadership positions with regional, national, and global organisations in the UK National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) since 2010.
She has worked with the higher education sector, including the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Southampton, Norwich and Essex as a researcher and consultant.
Her early career was spent working in the social economic development sector in Zambia where she developed her unending passion for the active engagement and involvement of public partners in health and care research, policy, and delivery.