Clinical academics
View further details of clinical academic training including HCRI’s academic clinical fellowship and specialist foundation programme placements.
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Clinical Professor Darren Walter - Programme Director of Online Programmes, and Senior Lecturer in Emergency Global Health
Darren's research interests are in emergency care system development and capacity building. He has been involved in the WHO Emergency Medical Teams project and supported the WHO Emergency Care System Assessment process. He is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Wythenshawe Hospital and a Royal College of Emergency Medicine representative on the Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee supporting the UK ambulance services.
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Professor Paul Dark - Professor of Critical Care Medicine and HCRI Research Professor
Paul studied medicine at Manchester and obtained a PhD as MRC Clinical Training Fellow in major trauma. He is Professor of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Manchester and Honorary NHS Consultant (Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust - Salford Care Organisation). He provides national research leadership for the Department of Health and Social Care and leads a research programme in health and social justice for the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR). He was appointed NIHR Senior Investigator in 2022.
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Dr Anisa Jafar - Houghton Dunn Fellow
Anisa’s PhD focussed on medical documentation by emergency medical teams (EMTs) in sudden-onset disasters which led to her work alongside the WHO EM working group to refine a minimum data set for disaster contexts. She is a member of the RCEM Global Emergency Medicine committee and is deputy Chair of. the RCEM Research & Publications committee; was a founding member of the Global Emergency Care Collaborative (GECCo); and is developing a research portfolio to evidence the bilateral impact of UK emergency care practitioners engaged in global health (i.e. access-, resource-, and context-limited health – ARC-H).
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Dr Louise Tomkow - NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Complex Health Needs
Louise graduated from the University of Liverpool in 2008 and became a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 2012. Louise has spent time volunteering as a doctor in Malawi and India and has a MA with distinction in Humanitarianism and Conflict Response. In 2019 she was awarded a PhD at the Humanitarianism and Conflict Response Institute. Her ESRC-funded doctorate examined how forced migration impacts health in later life, and therefore integrated her interests of migration, ageing, health and inequalities.
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HCRI alumni staff
Paul Kailiponi is a Senior Disaster Risk Analyst at the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) in Hawaii, USA. He works on developing risk analyses for Pacific Rim countries to estimate the effects of large-scale disaster events on social, political and economic institutions. Prior to working at the PDC, Dr Kailiponi was a Lecturer in Disaster Management at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) at the University of Manchester, UK.
His research interests include applied quantitative econometrics, decision theory, geographic information systems (GIS) and the application of these techniques to emergency management. He holds a PhD from Aston University, UK in operations research where he worked in the Aston CRISIS Centre. He completed his Bachelor's degree in International Economy from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He also holds a Master's degree in International Development from the University of Pittsburgh.
During his career he has also worked at the Aston CRISIS Centre, City of Pittsburgh Emergency Operations Center, the Pacific Disaster Center (Kihei, Hawaii), and the Ford Institute of Human Security (Pittsburgh, PA).
Jenny Peterson joined the HCRI from the University of British Columbia in Canada where she completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Department of Political Science.
She conducted research on the politics of conflict response and critiques of liberal peacebuilding. With a particular interest in the concept of political space and its impact on aid policy and practice, her research agenda questioned the possibilities for policy innovation and increasing levels of agency within the aid industry.
Her doctoral work included research trips to Kosovo in 2005 and 2006 during which she investigated the norms and processes relating to 'rule of law' projects and economic reforms which were used to fight criminality and political corruption.
Dr Peterson is currently a lecturer in the department of Political Science at the University of British Colombia, Canada.
Dr Alison Howell was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the HCRI. She conducted and teaching in the areas of health and conflict, with a specific interest in the relationship between medicine and militarism. Her research examined how psychiatric practices in Western militaries have evolved in the contemporary context of 'counterinsurgency' and 'humanitarian' wars.
Prior to joining HCRI Dr Howell was a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow in Politics at Manchester, and completed a doctorate at York University in Toronto, Canada. Her PhD research examined the role of psychology and psychiatry in global affairs, with a particular interest in post-conflict mental health interventions. This research was funded by SSHRC and the Canadian Consortium on Human Security, and is now being published as a sole-authored book with Routledge. Prior to her doctorate, Dr Howell completed two interdisciplinary degrees: an MA in Political Economy at Carleton University, and a BA Hons in International Studies at Trent University, Canada.
Dr Howell is currently Assistant Professor in the department of Political Science, Rutgers University, USA.