Fiona Campbell is a Senior Lecturer in Evidence Synthesis at Newcastle University, UK. She has 20 years’ experience in evidence synthesis and has been involved with the conduct and publication of reviews for NICE, HTA, WHO and the Cochrane Collaboration. She is the editor and founder of the Campbell Collaboration Children and Young Persons Wellbeing Coordinating Group. Her work has been used to inform NICE guidance for treatments for hypertension, obesity, excessive alcohol use, hospital errors, approaches to increasing levels of physical activity, and harmful behaviour in children. She has designed, led and published work on methodological aspects of systematic reviews including mixed-methods approaches to synthesis, scoping, mapping and Evidence and Gap Maps, rapid reviews, and qualitative synthesis. She is currently leading the evidence synthesis to support a systems approach to policy making (SIPHER).
Fiona has a track record in successful grant applications, building a strong network of collaborative links both in the UK and internationally. She has a clinical background in oncology nursing, district nursing and health visiting, and has worked in this capacity both in the UK and developing country settings.
