Expertise
Statistics; Randomised Controlled Trials; Cluster Randomised Trials
Biography
Obi has been a medical statistician since 1995. He the statistical lead in ARC South West and teaches on its Making Sense of Evidence workshops.
His main area of methodological interest is the design and conduct of cluster randomised controlled trials. He has contributed to multidisciplinary research on improving child mental health and wellbeing and the provision of primary/community care. His ongoing collaborations include a Wellcome Trust funded cross-national trial of an online support intervention for child anxiety problems (led by Professor Cathy Creswell, University of Oxford) and an NIHR HTA-funded trial of the effectiveness of oral nutritional supplements in older adults with malnutrition in the care home setting (led by Professor Mary Hickson, University of Plymouth). He is the senior statistician in the Oxford Centre for Emerging Minds Research led Professor Cathy Creswell.
He is a panel member for the NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research (PGfAR) funding scheme and statistical advisor to and member of the editorial board for the British Journal of General Practice and BJGP Open.
Projects
- Blended delivery of cognitive-behavioural therapy for repetitive negative thought within mental health support teams in schools as scalable early intervention for anxiety and depression
- Assessing feasibility/acceptability of the Veteran Connection Programme (and trial) to enhance mental health amongst military veterans through social connectedness
- CHOICES-HI: CHildren and young people’s Options In the Community for Enhancing wellbeing Support through Hospital-Initiated social prescribing.
- RecoverED Study
- Maintaining Independence in People with Dementia who have had a fall: a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial (the Maintain study)
- PhD Project – Cluster randomised trials for evaluating school-based interventions to improve physical health, mental health and behavioural outcomes in pupils
- D-PACT: Dementia – PersonAlised Care Team
- Healthy Parent Carers
- Improving the mental health of children and young people with long term conditions
- The MYRIAD Project: Mindfulness and Resilience in Adolescence
- Supporting Teachers and Children in Schools (STARS)
- Effectiveness of interventions to reduce ordering of thyroid function tests: a systematic review
- The Care Home Implementation and Knowledge Mobilisation Project (CHIK-P)
- Patient-initiated clinics (PIC) for people with long-term conditions
