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Jo Leonardi-Bee

Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

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  • workRoom C117 Clinical Sciences Building
    Nottingham City Hospital
    Hucknall Road
    Nottingham
    NG5 1PB
    UK
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Biography

Professor Jo Leonardi-Bee was awarded her BSc in Mathematics and Chemistry at the Nottingham Trent University, MSc in Medical Statistics at the University of Leicester, before undertaking her PGCHE and PhD at the University of Nottingham.

Jo is also the Co-Director for the Nottingham Centre for Evidence Based Healthcare: a JBI Centre of Excellence (https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/cebhc/index.aspx)

Expertise Summary

Keywords:

e-learning, reusable learning objects, epidemiology, systematic reviews, meta-analysis, smoking, tobacco control, dermatology, evidence synthesis, scoping reviews, evidence based healthcare, statistics

Teaching Summary

Professor Leonardi-Bee convenes the postgraduate module "Systematic Reviews" (10 credits), for the Master of Public Health, Master of Public Health (Global Health), Master of Public Health (Health… read more

Research Summary

Jo Leonardi-Bee is ta Professor of Evidence Synthesis at the University of Nottingham. Additionally, Jo is Co-Director of the Nottingham Centre for Evidence Based Healthcare, which is a JBI Centre of… read more

Selected Publications

Additional Roles:

  • Senior Associate Editor for the JBI Evidence Synthesis journal
  • Royal College Physicians Tobacco Advisory Group- Member
  • Statistical Editor for the British Journal of Dermatology
  • Editor for the Cochrane Diagnostic Test Accuracy Review Group
  • Pastoral and academic tutor for medical students- years 1-5
  • Pastoral and academic tutor for Masters in Public Health (MPH), MPH (Global Health), and MPH (Health Research) students

Professor Leonardi-Bee convenes the postgraduate module "Systematic Reviews" (10 credits), for the Master of Public Health, Master of Public Health (Global Health), Master of Public Health (Health Research) programmes. She also teaches research methods and statistics on other postgraduate modules. She has developed and produced re-usable learning objects on the topic of meta-analysis. She supervises students at undergraduate, Masters, and PGR/PhD levels.

Current Research

Jo Leonardi-Bee is ta Professor of Evidence Synthesis at the University of Nottingham. Additionally, Jo is Co-Director of the Nottingham Centre for Evidence Based Healthcare, which is a JBI Centre of Excellence, and Co-Chair of the UK GRADE Network, which aims to support collaborative efforts in the application of GRADE in evidence syntheses and guideline development; the training/upskilling in use of, and application of, GRADE; and methodological development/refinement of the GRADE approach.

Jo has specific expertise in quantitative systematic reviews and scoping reviews, where her work demonstrates external impact through shaping academic disciplines and informing national and international policy and practice, including clinical practice guidelines and global public health policy.

Jo collaborates with government agencies, advocacy groups, NGOs, and research institutions to undertake evidence synthesis research. Jo's research also focuses on methodological advancements and improvements in evidence synthesis.

A sample of Jo's ongoing research includes:

  • Evidence reviews on topics related to public health emergency preparedness and response (funded by European Center for Disease Prevention and Control)
  • Public Health Intervention Responsive Studies Team (funded by NIHR)
  • Optimising Digital Methods For Smoking Cessation In Pregnancy (funded by NIHR)
  • Developing, optimising, and evaluating a conversion of standard smoking cessation support in pregnancy into a digital support package (funded by NIHR)
  • Scoping review of the methodological quality of systematic review on One Health
  • Development of a reporting checklist for observational studies assessing causal factors

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