Shahid Islam

Shahid is a Principal Research Fellow and the Director for the Centre for Co-production & Peer Research (CoPPeR) at the Bradford Institute for Health Research and the PPIE Lead in YH ARC.

Prior to joining BIHR, Shahid held several posts in both the voluntary and statutory sector to drive forward the engagement and involvement agenda. In 2015 Shahid was the winner of Bradford’s Community Star Award for outstanding services to the voluntary sector and in 2021 he won the Chief Scientific Officer’s Excellence in Healthcare Science Research and Innovation Award.

Shahid has led on the ‘co-production’ of the ‘co-production strategy’ which has been implemented across the health sector and he describes his role as community activism through applied research.

Shahid has contributed to a book on British Muslims, Ethnicity and Health Inequalities- https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-british-muslims-ethnicity-and-health-inequalities.html