Doreen Tembo

Doreen Tembo is Head of Public Involvement and Engagement at Health Data Research UK and the Strategic Lead of the Public Engagement with Data Research Initiative. She spent her early career working in the social economic development sector in Zambia where she developed her unending passion for the active engagement and involvement of public partners in health and care research, policy, and delivery. Doreen has research, partnership and stakeholder development and management experience from the national and global health research sector having held leadership positions with regional, national, and global programmes in the UK National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) since 2010. Doreen has worked with the higher education sector, including the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Southampton, Norwich and Essex as a researcher and patient and public involvement and engagement consultant.