Yemisi Takwoingi is a biostatistician and Professor of Test Evaluation and Evidence Synthesis in the Institute of Applied Health Research at the University of Birmingham. She is also Deputy Director of the Institute. Yemisi is passionate about ‘People and Culture’ and leads on this for the Institute. She leads the new NIHR Race Equity and Diversity in Careers Incubator to support the careers of racially minoritised health and care researchers, a priority area for the NIHR and many funders in the UK. Amongst her Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)-related roles, she is EDI Lead for the NIHR Midlands Patient Safety Research Collaboration.