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Romaana has expertise in conducting and managing qualitative research projects, developing and evaluating interventions, disseminating findings through conferences and peer-reviewed journals, and delivering and facilitating training and development sessions. In addition to her role at The Strategy Unit, Romaana is currently completing a Professional Doctorate in Health Psychology and is especially interested in working with health and care organisations to apply behavioural science and public health initiatives, in order to create change and improve the health and wellbeing of the population.
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- Process evaluation
- Qualitative research methods
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Before joining The Strategy Unit, Romaana worked collaboratively with a range of stakeholders on numerous clinical research projects in both higher education and NHS settings. This includes developing and evaluating interventions to improve people’s self-management of long-term conditions, and studies of the interpersonal staff-patient dynamics that affect treatment satisfaction and experience of care, especially in hospital. Additionally, she has experience of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching on psychological and behavioural aspects of chronic illness and also holds several publications on this topic area.
Recent projects at the Strategy Unit include:
- Evaluating several community pharmacy initiatives including the Pharmacy Contraception Service and the New Medicines Service
- Conducting a realist evaluation of a patient safety improvement programme
- Conducting a mixed methods evaluation of NHSE’s Detect, Protect, Perfect programme for improving the detection and management of atrial fibrillation
- Evaluating two major NHS programmes to improve cardiovascular services in England
- Developing the evaluation team’s practice in involving and engaging patients and the public within evaluations.
