19 – Building on research into health inequalities: blood borne virus infection and poor air quality
Queen Mary University of London became a member of the SPCR in 2021. Its application to join the School focused on addressing health inequalities, and since then, it has continued to build on this expertise.
Chris Griffiths, professor of primary care, and Werner Leber, Clinical Lecturer, have a long and successful track record of leading cluster randomised trials showing that primary care is an effective setting for infectious disease screening. Working in practices serving disadvantaged migrant populations in the east end of London, Chris showed that practices trained to screen increased their pick-up of people infected with TB. They followed this with screening programmes identifying people with HIV and with hepatitis B and C infection.
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SPCR Project number: 626 / SPCR Project number: 679
PI: Chris Griffiths
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