Meet the team

• Rachael Gooberman-Hill - Executive Director
  Rachael has been Director of the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute since August 2017. She is Professor of Health and Anthropology and is committed to interdisciplinary health research. Her vision for the Institute centres on supporting excellent research that has real impact on health.
• Nina Couzin - Institute Manager
  Nina manages the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute by developing and supporting a broad range of activities and programmes of work to facilitate research across disciplines to improve health. Nina has a background in Physical Sciences and scientific publishing, and is particularly interested in how new knowledge is translated into real-world impact.
• Jocelyn Egginton - Executive Assistant
  Jocelyn looks after the day to day running of the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute. Get in touch about general enquiries or events. Email ebih-admin@bristol.ac.uk or ebi-events@bristol.ac.uk depending on your query.
• Jo Barrell - Senior Communications Officer
  Jo manages communications for the Institute. She has 20 years’ experience working in PR and communications for third sector organisations focusing on health and wellbeing.
• Sarah Eyland - Project Officer
  Sarah handles all of our funding schemes and projects and supports our researchers. For funding/project enquiries email: ebi-health@bristol.ac.uk
• Catherine Brown - Research Development Administrator for the Health Research Networks
  Catherine administers our three Health Research Networks, which provide researchers with opportunities for collaboration and partnership across schools and faculties. See our Connect section for information on how to join our health networks.