Rate My Professor Sabi Redwood

Professor Sabi Redwood, EdD, MA, RN/RSCN, is Professor of Social Science Applied to Health and Care in Bristol Medical School (Population Health Sciences) at the University of Bristol. She serves as Director of the National Institute for Health Research Applied Research Collaboration West (NIHR ARC West), leading strategic efforts to translate applied health and care research into real-world improvements in patient care and population health. Redwood is affiliated with the Bristol Poverty Institute, Migration Mobilities Bristol, and Bristol Population Health Science Institute. She also holds the position of Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham since April 2014. Her career centers on applied, interdisciplinary, and interprofessional health research that informs practitioners, managers, and policymakers in healthcare.

Redwood's research integrates sociology and ethnography to study the implementation and use of healthcare technologies and their impacts on patient safety and care quality. She addresses dynamics of super-diversity from immigration in contemporary Europe, develops participatory community-based approaches to explore health and illness experiences in minority ethnic and migrant communities to reduce inequalities, and pioneers innovative collaborative forms of patient and public involvement in research and service development. Key projects include the PReCePT programme preventing cerebral palsy in preterm infants, evaluation of the ReSPECT emergency care planning process, National Early Warning Score implementation in primary care, Syrian mental health assessment and migration study (SHAMIS), Good Grief Connects, Changing Futures for multiple disadvantage, and diversity in diabetes care. She co-leads the Bristol Medical School Qualitative Research Forum and has contributed to policy briefings on improving outcomes for refugee children and cost-effective hepatitis C prevention. Redwood has produced 97 research outputs, including recent articles such as "Demonstrating the value for money of implementing evidence-based treatment: the case for further investment in magnesium sulphate as a neuroprotectant for preterm births" (2026, Frontiers in Health Services), "Codevelopment of a complex intervention to reduce inequalities in paediatric diabetes secondary care outcomes" (2025, BMJ Open), and "Exploring how PRIME-Parkinson care is implemented" (2025, BMJ Open). Her work has over 15,000 citations and includes three journal editorials and seedcorn funding for physical activity guidelines communication (2018).