Professor Paul Aylin, MBChB, FFPH, FRCPE, trained in Public Health after studying medicine at the University of Dundee. He spent three years at the Office for National Statistics as a Medical Statistician before coming to Imperial in 1997.
He was appointed Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at Imperial College London in 2014, and is the Director of the Dr Foster Unit at Imperial. He leads and manages a team of researchers investigating variations in performance and safety in healthcare delivery. He is principal investigator on two further NIHR grants looking at the impact of a mortality surveillance system on UK hospitals and examining the association of surgical procedures during pregnancy with birth outcomes. He leads a research theme within the NIHR funded Patient Safety Translational Research Centre around use of information, with a focus on primary care. He leads a work stream on data linkage and surveillance within the NIHR funded Imperial Health Protection Research Unit for Healthcare Associated Infection (HCAI) and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). He is a member of the Directorate of Public Health and Primary Care management board and contributes to the trust Surgical Outcomes Group as well as other projects around patient safety and quality of care.
He is a non-executive director on the board of the West London NHS Trust.