Mr Brandon Smith BSc (Hons)


University position

PhD student

Departments

Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Institutes

NIHR Global Health Research Group on Neurotrauma and Neurosurgery Unit

Email

bgs30@cam.ac.uk

Home page

http://brangsmith.com (personal home page)

Research Theme

Clinical and Veterinary Neuroscience

Interests

As a current MBBS/PhD student, my research is centered on the contextual challenges associated with long-term follow-up of patients of whom have sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Using a mixed methods approach, I aim to explore innovative, evidence-based solutions to enable the collection of long-term outcome data, employing low-cost solutions to provide a novel technology at scale to assist in patient-reported outcome collection and facilitate long-term follow-up research.

Research Focus

Keywords

LMIC

outcomes

neurosurgery

traumatic brain injury

global health

Clinical conditions

Traumatic brain injury

Equipment

Electronic engineering

Python & Data Science

Qualitative analysis

Collaborators

Cambridge

Peter Hutchinson

Angelos Kolias

Charlotte Whiffin

Associated News Items


    Key publications

    Smith BG, Whiffin CJ, Esene IN, Karekezi C, Bashford T, Khan MM, Fontoura Solla DJ, Devi BI, Hutchinson PJ, Kolias AG, Figaji A, Rubiano AM (2021), “Neurotrauma clinicians' perspectives on the contextual challenges associated with long-term follow-up following traumatic brain injury in low-income and middle-income countries: a qualitative study protocol” BMJ Open

    Publications

    2020

    Whiffin CJ, Smith BG, Esene IN, Karekezi C, Bashford T, Khan MK, Fontoura Solla DJ, Hutchinson PJ, Kolias AG (2020), “Neurosurgeons' experiences of conducting and disseminating clinical research in low- and middle-income countries: a qualitative study protocol” BMJ Open