About Us

Corinna Alberg  – Project Manager (Public Health)

Corinna Alberg is a project manager and researcher for the Foundation’s projects on health service development and writes about them for reports and articles. She is also involved with our educational work and coordinates the Foundation’s outreach activities as well as developing  learning materials for health professionals and policy makers.

Corinna earned a BSc in Psychology from the University of Southampton and an MSc in Health Education and Health Promotion from Hull University. She also completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University. For a number of years she worked in the NHS as a Health Promotion Officer and at the Northwestern Regional Health Authority developing primary health care before going into research at Manchester University. She joined the Public Health Genetics Unit in 2006.

Corinna has recently finished a needs assessment and service review of screening for Tay Sachs Disease, has been involved in a review of services for genetic eye disorders and project managed a needs assessment and service review for inherited cardiac conditions. She is currently project managing an evaluation of a primary, secondary and tertiary care project in Birmingham that is improving services for families at risk of genetic disorders linked to consanguineous partnerships. She is also co-ordinating the implementation aspect of the RAPID (Reliable Accurate Prenatal non-Invasive Diagnosis) programme which has been funded by the National Institute of Health Research. She was also responsible for the production of a series of e-learning materials that are available on our website and on YouTube.

Selected recent publications:

• Burton H, Alberg C and Stewart A  Heart to Heart: Inherited Cardiovascular Conditions Services - A Needs Asessment and Service Review (2009)
• Burton H, Levene S, Alberg C and Stewart A Tay Sachs Disease carrier screening in the Ashkenazi Jewish population: Needs assessment and review of current services (2009)

Please visit PHG Foundation’s resources page for a list of our publications and other work by members of our staff.