Melanie Calvert

Melanie Jane Calvert is a British epidemiologist who is professor of Outcomes Methodology at the University of Birmingham. Her research considers the design of clinical trials. She is Director of the Centre for Patient-reported outcomes Research, which looks to enhance patient care through optimised use of PROs in clinical trials. She was elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2025.

Early life and education Calvert studied biochemistry at the University of Birmingham. She remained in Birmingham for her graduate studies, where she was supported by a Wellcome Trust prize to study the interactions of cardiac and skeletal troponins.

Research and career In 2024, Calvert was awarded an National Institute for Health and Care Research senior investigator award. Her research looks to improve patient-reported outcomes (PROs), and advocates for patient concerns to inform regulatory decision making. She is Director of the Centre for PROs Research, which looks to improve patient outcomes and centre patient perspectives at the heart of health research. She established a UK-wide network that looked to regulate and understand public perspectives of advanced therapies. Calvert studied long COVID, analysing the financial impact, evaluating how people of different ethnicities suffered from the condition, and developing strategies (including a questionnaire ) to measure the outcomes of long COVID therapies.

Calvert was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) in 2025.

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