Positions held: Relevant Professional and Academic

Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Formerly Associate Professor of Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment, University of Warwick

Education: University and above,

Postdoc, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

PhD in Health Sciences (University of Leicester, Leicester, UK)

MSc in Medical Statistics (University of Leicester, Leicester, UK)

BSc (Hons) Nursing RN (Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK)

BSc Human Biology (KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana)

Research interest:

Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment

Statistical Methods for Synthesizing Evidence from Diverse Sources

Publications

1. Achana F., Boah, Michael, Chirawurah, Dennis, Owusu-Marfo, Joseph, Ndago Joyce Aputere, Santah Colette, Mohammed Abdul-Raheem, Adokiya Martin Nyaaba (2023) Equitable global health research collaborations with a mind of human dignity. Frontiers in Education 8: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2023.1233018

 

2. Adokiya, M.N., Boah, M., Atinbire, S.A., Achana, F., Ndago, J.A. (2023) A qualitative study of health workers’ perspectives on malaria case identification and management among pregnant women in Savelugu Municipality, Ghana. PLOS Global Public Health 3(5): e0001963. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001963

 

3. Koutoukidis, D.A., Jebb, S.A., Foster, C., Wheatstone, P., Horne, A., Hill, T.M., Taylor, A., Realpe, A., Achana, (2023) CARE: Protocol of a randomised trial evaluating the feasibility of preoperative intentional weight loss to support postoperative recovery in patients with excess weight and colorectal cancer. Colorectal Disease: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/codi.16687

 

4. Underwood, M.N., Achana, F., Carnes, D., Eldridge, S., Ellard, D.R., Griffiths, F., Haywood, K., Hee, S.W., Higgins, H. (2023) Supportive self-management program for people with chronic headaches and migraine: a randomized controlled trial and economic evaluation. Neurology 100 (13), e1339-e1352: https://n.neurology.org/content/100/13/e1339.long

 

5. Mason, K.J., Jordan, K.P., Heron, N., Edwards, J.J., Bailey, J., Achana, F.A., Chen, Y., Frisher, M., Huntley, A.L., Mallen, C.D. (2023) Musculoskeletal pain and its impact on prognosis following acute coronary syndrome or stroke: A linked electronic health record cohort study. Musculoskeletal Care: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/msc.1748

 

6. Khan, K., Mistry, H., Matharu, M., Norman, C., Petrou, S., Stewart, K., Underwood, M., Achana, F. (2022) Mapping between headache specific and generic preference-based health-related quality of life measures. BMC Medical Research Methodology 22 (1), 277: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s12874-022-01762-y.pdf

 

7. Achana, F., Johnson, S., Ni, Y., Marlow, N., Wolke, D., Khan, K., Petrou, S. (2022). Economic costs and health utility values associated with extremely preterm birth: Evidence from the EPICure2 cohort study. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 36 (5), 696-705: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ppe.12906

 

8. Benson, M., Brown, T.P., Booth, S., Achana, F., Smith, C.M., Price, G., Ward, M., Hawkes, C., Perkins, G.D. (2022) Location of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests and automated external defibrillators in relation to schools in an English ambulance service region. Resuscitation Plus 11, 100279: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666520422000790

 

9. Griffin, D.R., Dickenson, E.J., Achana, F., Griffin, J., Smith, J., Wall, P.D.H., Realpe, A., Parsons, N., Hobson, R., Fry, J. (2022) Arthroscopic hip surgery compared with personalised hip therapy in people over 16 years old with femoroacetabular impingement syndrome: UK FASHIoN RCT. Health Technology Assessment (Winchester, England) 26 (16), 1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8919110/

 

10. Wright, J., Achana, F., Diwakar, L., Semple, M.G., Carroll, W.D., Baillie, K., Thompson, C., Alcock, A., Kemp, T.S. (2021) Cycle threshold values are inversely associated with poorer outcomes in hospitalized patients with COVID-19: a prospective, observational cohort study conducted at a UK tertiary hospital. International Journal of Infectious Diseases 111, 333-335: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971221006573

 

11. Haywood, K.L., Achana, F., Nichols, V., Pearce, G., Box, B., Muldoon, L., Patel, S., Griffiths, F., Stewart, K., Underwood, M. (2021) Measuring health-related quality of life in chronic headache: a comparative evaluation of the chronic headache quality of life questionnaire and headache impact test (HIT-6). Cephalalgia 41 (10), 1100-1123: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03331024211006045

 

12. Achana, F., Gallacher, D., Oppong, R., Kim, S., Petrou, S., Mason, J., Crowther, M. (2021) Multivariate generalized linear mixed-effects models for the analysis of clinical trial–based cost-effectiveness data. Medical Decision Making 41 (6), 667-684: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0272989X211003880

 

13. Perkins, G.D., Ji, C., Achana, F., Black, J.J.M., Charlton, K., Crawford, J., de Paeztron, A., Deakin, C., Docherty, M., Finn, J. (2021) Adrenaline to improve survival in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: the PARAMEDIC2 RCT. Health Technology Assessment (Winchester, England) 25 (25), 1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8072520/

 

14. Achana, F., Petrou, S., Madan, J., Khan, K., Ji, C., Hossain, A., Lall, R., Slowther, A.M., Deakin, C.D., Quinn, T., Nolan, J.P. (2020) Cost-effectiveness of adrenaline for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Critical Care 24, 1-12, 2020: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s13054-020-03271-0.pdf

 

15. Fraser, H., Gallacher, D., Achana, F., Court, R., Taylor-Phillips, S., Nduka, C., Stinton, C., Willans, R., Gill, P., Mistry, H. (2020) Rapid antigen detection and molecular tests for group A streptococcal infections for acute sore throat: systematic reviews and economic evaluation. Health Technology Assessment (Winchester, England) 24 (31), 1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7355404/

 

16. Patel, S., Achana, F., Carnes, D., Eldridge, S., Ellard, D.R., Griffiths, F., Haywood, K., Hee, S.W., Mistry, D., Mistry, H. (2020) Usual care and a self-management support programme versus usual care and a relaxation programme for people living with chronic headache disorders: a randomised controlled trial protocol (CHESS). BMJ Open 10 (4), e033520: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/4/e033520.long

 

17. Patel, S., Achana, F., Carnes, D., Eldridge, S., Ellard, D.R., Griffiths, F., Haywood, K., Hee, S.W., Mistry, D., Mistry, H. (2020) Protocol: Usual care and a self-management support programme versus usual care and a relaxation programme for people living with chronic headache disorders: a randomised controlled trial protocol (CHESS). BMJ Open 10 (4): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7200026/

 

18. Kim, S.W., Achana, F., Petrou, S. (2019) A bootstrapping approach for generating an inverse distance weight matrix when multiple observations have an identical location in large health surveys. International Journal of Health Geographics 18, 1-8: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s12942-019-0189-5.pdf

 

19. Parker, B., Petrou, S., Masters, J.P.M., Achana, F., Costa, M.L. (2018) Economic outcomes associated with deep surgical site infection in patients with an open fracture of the lower limb. The bone & joint journal 100 (11), 1506-1510.

 

20. Oppong, R., Smith, R.D., Little, P., Verheij, T., Butler, C.C., Goossens, H., Coenen, S., Jowett, S., Roberts, T.E., Achana, F. (2018) Cost-effectiveness of internet-based training for primary care clinicians on antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory tract infections in Europe. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 73 (11), 3189-3198.

 

21. Griffin, D.R., Dickenson, E.J., Achana, F., Griffin, J., Smith, J., Wall, P.D.H., Realpe, A., Parsons, N., Hobson, R., Fry, J. (2023) Hip arthroscopy versus best conservative care for the treatment of femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (UK FASHIoN): a multicentre randomised controlled trial. The Lancet 391 (10136), 2225-2235

 

22. Achana, F.A., Fleming, K.M., Tata, L.J., Sultan, A.A., Petrou, S. (2018) Peripartum hysterectomy: an economic analysis of direct healthcare costs using routinely collected data. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 125 (7), 874-883.

 

23. Haywood, K., Achana, F., Nichols, V., Pearce, G., Box, B., Muldoon, L., Patel, S., Griffiths, F., Stewart, K., Underwood, M. (2023) COSCA (Core Outcome Set for Cardiac Arrest) in adults: an advisory statement from the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation. Circulation 137 (22), e783-e801

 

24. Achana, F., Fleming, K., Tata, L., Sultan, A., Petrou, S. (2018) Authors’ reply re: Peripartum hysterectomy: an economic analysis of direct healthcare costs using routinely collected data. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 125 (7).

 

25. Gallacher, D., Achana, F. (2018) Assessing the health economic agreement of different data sources. The Stata Journal 18 (1), 223-233: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1536867X1801800114

 

26. Achana, F., Petrou, S., Khan, K., Gaye, A., Modi, N. (2018) A methodological framework for assessing agreement between cost-effectiveness outcomes estimated using alternative sources of data on treatment costs and effects for trial-based economic evaluations. The European Journal of Health Economics 19, 75-86, 2018

 

27. Kendrick, D., Ablewhite, J., Achana, F., Benford, P., Clacy, R., Coffey, F., Cooper, N., Coupland, C., Deave, T. (2018) Keeping Children Safe: a multicentre programme of research to increase the evidence base for preventing unintentional injuries in the home in the under-fives. https://europepmc.org/books/nbk447053

 

28. Kendrick, D., Ablewhite, J., Achana, F., Benford, P., Clacy, R., Coffey, F., Cooper, N., Coupland, C., Deave, T. (2017) What are the barriers to, and facilitators of, implementing thermal injury, falls and poisoning prevention interventions among children’s centres, professionals and community members?(Work stream 4). Keeping Children Safe: a multicentre programme of research: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/n/ukpgfar0514/s5/?report=reader

 

 

29. Ellard, D.R., Underwood, M., Achana, F., Antrobus, J.H.L., Balasubramanian, S., Brown, S., Cairns, M., Griffin, J., Griffiths, F. (2017) Facet joint injections for people with persistent non-specific low back pain (Facet Injection Study): a feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial. Health Technology Assessment (Winchester, England) 21 (30), 1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5502371/

 

30. Dritsaki, M., Achana, F., Mason, J., Petrou, S. (2017) Methodological issues surrounding the use of baseline health-related quality of life data to inform trial-based economic evaluations of interventions within emergency and critical care settings: a systematic literature review. Pharmacoeconomics 35, 501-515.

 

31. Gholap, N.N., Achana, F.A., Davies, M.J., Ray, K.K., Gray, L., Khunti, K. (2017) Long‐term mortality after acute myocardial infarction among individuals with and without diabetes: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of studies in the post‐reperfusion era. Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism 19 (3), 364-374.

 

32. Achana, F., Sutton, A.J., Kendrick, D., Hayes, M., Jones, D.R., Hubbard, S.J., Cooper, N.J. (2016) A decision analytic model to investigate the cost-effectiveness of poisoning prevention practices in households with young children. BMC Public Health 16, 1-17.

 

33. Perkins, G.D., Quinn, T., Deakin, C.D., Nolan, J.P., Lall, R., Slowther, A.M., Cooke, M., Lamb, S.E., Petrou, S., Achana, F. (2016) Pre-hospital assessment of the role of adrenaline: measuring the effectiveness of drug administration in cardiac arrest (PARAMEDIC-2): trial protocol. Resuscitation 108, 75-81. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0300957216304464

 

34. Wall, P.D.H., Donovan, J.L., Foster, N.E., Hutchinson, C.E., Parsons, N., Petrou, S., Realpe, A., Achten, J., Achana, F., Griffin, D. (2016). Protocol for a multicentre, parallel-arm, 12-month, randomised, controlled trial of arthroscopic surgery versus conservative care for femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (FASHIoN) BMJ Open 6 (8), e012453: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjopen/6/8/e012453.full.pdf

 

35. Seidu, S., Achana, F., Gray, L.J., Davies, M.J., Khunti, K. (2016) Effects of glucose‐lowering and multifactorial interventions on cardiovascular and mortality outcomes: a meta‐analysis of randomized control trials: Diabetic medicine 33 (3), 280-289, 2016

 

36. Sandhu, H., Ellard, D.R., Achana, F., Antrobus, J.H.L., Balasubramanian, S., Brown, S., Cairns, M., Griffiths, F., Haywood, K., Underwood, M. (2016) Facet-joint injections for people with persistent non-specific low back pain (FIS): study protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial. Trials 16 (1), 1-11: https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13063-015-1117-z

 

37. Achana, F., Sutton, A.J., Kendrick, D., Hayes, M., Jones, D.R., Hubbard, S.J., Cooper, N.J. (2016) A decision analytic model to investigate the cost-effectiveness of poisoning prevention practices in households with young children. BMC public health. 2016;16:705.

 

38. Khunti, K., Mani, H., Achana, F., Cooper, N., Gray, L.J., Davies, M.J. (2015). Systematic review and meta-analysis of response rates and diagnostic yield of screening for type 2 diabetes and those at high risk of diabetes. PLoS One 10 (9), e0135702: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0135702

 

39. Achana, F.A., Sutton, A.J., Kendrick, D., Wynn, P., Young, B., Jones, D.R., Hubbard, S.J., Cooper, N.J. (2015) The effectiveness of different interventions to promote poison prevention behaviours in households with children: a network meta-analysis. PLoS One 10 (4), e0121122

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0121122&type=printable

 

40. Hubbard, S., Cooper, N., Kendrick, D., Young, B., Wynn, P.M., He, Z., Miller, P., Achana, F., Sutton, A. (2015) Network meta-analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions to prevent falls in children under age 5 years. Injury prevention 21 (2), 98-108.

 

41. Achana, F.A., Cooper, N.J., Bujkiewicz, S., Hubbard, S.J., Kendrick, D., Jones, D.R., Sutton, A.J. (2014) Network meta-analysis of multiple outcome measures accounting for borrowing of information across outcomes. BMC medical research methodology 14 (1), 1-16.

https://bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2288-14-92

 

42. Carter, P., Achana, F., Troughton, J., Gray, L.J., Khunti, K., Davies, M.J. (2014) A mediterranean diet improves HBA1c but not fasting blood glucose compared to alternative dietary strategies: a network meta‐analysis. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics 27 (3), 280-297.

 

43. Achana, F., Hubbard, S., Sutton, A., Kendrick, D., Cooper, N. (2014) An exploration of synthesis methods in public health evaluations of interventions concludes that the use of modern statistical methods would be beneficial Journal of clinical epidemiology 67 (4), 376-390.

 

44. Achana, F.A., Cooper, N.J., Dias, S., Lu, G., Rice, S.J., Kendrick, D., (2012). Extending methods for investigating the relationship between treatment effect and baseline risk from pairwise meta-analysis to network meta-analysis. Statistics in Medicine. 2012;32(5):752-71.

 

45. Cooper NJ, Kendrick D, Achana F, Dhiman P, He Z, Wynn P, et al (2012) Network Meta-analysis to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Interventions to Increase the Uptake of Smoke Alarms. Epidemiologic Reviews. 2012;34(1):32-45.

 

46. Kendrick, D., Young, B., Mason-Jones, A.J., Ilyas, N., Achana, F.A., Cooper, N.J. (2012) Home safety education and provision of safety equipment for injury prevention. Cochrane Database of Systematic  Reviews. 2012;Issue 9. DOI:10.1002/14651858.CD005014.pub3.