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Centre for Primary Care - Queen Mary University of London

The Centre for Primary Care is one of five research centres in the Wolfson Institute of Population Health (WIPH). The Centre for Primary Care encompasses the work of the Primary Care Unit and the Clinical Effectiveness Group.   

The Primary Care Unit brings together expert teams to carry out research into the environment, asthma and infection, multiple long-term conditions, and the complexities of everyday experience, healthcare interactions and working practices. Their work uses a wide range of methods including qualitative and mixed methods, natural experiments, modelling, intervention development and assessment, and research synthesis.  

The Clinical Effectiveness Group (CEG) uses primary care health data for research, with a particular interest in reducing health inequalities and improving population health. The unit provides analyses, clinical tools, guidance and expertise to NHS primary care teams across North East London and leads the Wellcome Trust PhD programme ‘Health Data in Practice’. CEG is a founding member of the Discovery Data Service, which integrates data from GPs, hospitals and community settings in near real-time.  

ABOUT THEIR RESEARCH

The Centre for Primary Care is particularly active in the following research areas:  

Health data science, geospatial linkage, maternal health and child health/obesity immunisation. 

Common chronic respiratory conditions, in particular Asthma, COPD and TB. 

Other long-term conditions, including diabetes and living with and beyond cancer and multimorbidity. 

Studying complexity through innovative qualitative methodologies. 

Cancer in primary care, in particular early detection. 

Environmental influence on health, including air quality. 

Cardiovascular disease and inequalities in health service provision and the Discovery integrated data programme across London. 

Blood borne viruses – HIV, Hepatitis C and Hepatitis B. 

Oral health and Primary Dental Care access and organisation. 

SEM and Sports and MSK physiotherapy 

Primary Care Trials, Quantitative methods in primary care

Dementia and older people's mental

Multiple sclerosis, and women’s health in neurological diseases

Health inequalities, interventions and policies for health equity

Life-course health in cardiovascular diseases and oral health through statistical machine learning and electronic health records

Ethnic inequalities in cardiometabolic disease, pharmacoepidemiology, health data science using large scale real-world observational and genetic data 

Analysis of the effectiveness/cost-effectiveness of healthcare and public health interventions, patient safety, health policy, and inequalities in health and resource allocation

Complex interventions and digital health, health inequalities and PPI involvement in medical research

Click through for more information on the Centre for Primary Care.   

SUPPORT FOR EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS

Early Career Researchers in the Centre for Primary Care and the wider Wolfson Institute of Population Health will be encourage to take advantage of the following local training and support opportunities: 

  • WIPH ECR forum with Institute funding available to support a programme of internal and external speakers and training; 

  • WIPH Research Seminar series (fortnightly) offers a rich programme of internal and external speakers with Q&A providing an opportunity for ECRs to participate in interesting discussion; 

  • “How I got my Fellowship” (every two months) invites successful applicants to talk about their experience of recently obtaining a fellowship with a Q&A to follow. These sessions have been incredibly popular across the Institute; 

  • “Curiosity Workshops” (monthly) are informal gatherings, in which researchers take turns to share work-in-progress, invite discussion, seek advice and share ideas on whatever is of most help to the researcher who is sharing their work. This might be an early research idea, a presentation in preparation, a data-analysis workshop or a methodological dilemma for examples. There is usually lots of participation and ideas generation, and plenty of shared curiosity! 

  • Various other specialist forums for statistics, epidemiology, pilot studies etc. where ECRs can exchange ideas and skills/ experience with senior colleagues working in similar areas of research or using similar methodological approaches;  

CONTACT DETAILS

If you want to conduct your fellowship at the Queen Mary University of London, but not sure whom to contact for support, do feel welcome to reach out to the people below:

Dr Dominik Zenner; d.zenner@qmul.ac.uk (SPCR training lead)

Juliet Henderson; juliet.henderson@qmul.ac.uk (professional support)