Understanding and learning from the impact of changes in colorectal cancer care delivery in light of COVID-19 and their interplay with socioeconomic inequalities
This Health Foundation-funded research project uses colorectal cancer as an exemplar to help understand the impact of changes in cancer care during covid-19 on patient experience and outcomes.
Start date
October 2020End date
October 2021Team
Principal Investigator
Professor Katriina Whitaker
Professor of Psychology and Co-Lead for Cancer Care
Biography
Katriina Whitaker is Professor of Psychology in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Surrey and co-leads the Cancer Care group with Rob Kerrison. Katriina's own programme of work focuses on early diagnosis and cancer, with a particular interest in healthcare-seeking and health inequalities. Katriina is a Chartered Psychologist and was made a Fellow of the British Psychological Society in 2017. Katriina is an expert review panel member for Cancer Research UK's Early Diagnosis & Detection Trials, Behavioural Health System and Health Economics research panel.