Peymané is a public health physician and Professor of Chronic Disease Epidemiology & Public Health at the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on prevention and health promotion.

A major area of her research is around obesity prevention and management, particularly in children and minority ethnic groups. Her work has informed policy; she has contributed to the development of two UK National guidelines on the prevention and management of childhood obesity and was a member of the Obesity Health Alliance Independent Obesity Strategy Working Group, which produced the Turning the Tide 10-year strategy (http://obesityhealthalliance.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Turning-the-Tide-A-10-year-Healthy-Weight-Strategy.pdf) . She is currently a member of the advisory group for NESTA’s “Blueprint to halving obesity” and a member of the NIHR Policy Research Unit on healthy weight. She has also led research on childhood obesity internationally, including China.

She has also led research programmes on the early diagnosis and prevention of COPD in the UK and as part of two Global Health Research programmes, currently focusing on South America. This work includes a trial of case finding for undiagnosed COPD and the development and validation of risk prediction tools for COPD, the findings of which have been used in international guidelines for the management of COPD.

She chaired the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Public Health Research Funding Committee from 2019-2024, leads the PHRESH membership for and is Deputy-Director of the NIHR School for Public Health Research, and co-leads the PHIRST PHRESH team. She is also the co-Director of the Midlands Satellite for the NIHR RSS Specialist Centre for Public Health.