Prospective students for the PhD in Public Health and Primary Care are expected to have identified a Primary Supervisor who supports their research proposal and application ahead of submitting an application. Please see below a list of current department PhD Supervisors.
| Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit (CEU) | ||
| Dr Stephen Burgess | Causal inference, genetic epidemiology | sb452@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Professor Adam Butterworth |
Genetic discovery, molecular ‘’omics, human genetics to inform therapeutic target prioritisation. |
asb38@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Professor John Danesh | Integrative multi-modal CVD research | johndaneshpa@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Professor Emanuele Di Angelantonio |
Prevention of cardiovascular disease; cardiovascular disease epidemiology |
ed303@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Dr Stephen Kaptoge | Applied statistical methods for chronic disease epidemiology (meta-analysis of disease associations, risk prediction, public health modelling) and pragmatic trials | skk22@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Professor Michael Inouye |
Computational biology, public health genomics, statistical genomics, polygenic scores, network biology, machine learning |
mi336@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Dr Samuel Lambert | Multimorbidity involving cardiometabolic conditions, risk factor epidemiology (blood pressure, BMI), genetic epidemiology, polygenic scores, open-science resources, computational biology | |
| Professor Angela Wood |
Electronic health records; Chronic disease epidemiology; Statistical methodology for epidemiological research; Prediction of cardiovascular risk; Epidemiology of adverse pregnancy outcomes |
amw79@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Dr Xilin Jiang | Statistical machine learning, molecular architecture of health outcomes. | xj262@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Dr Elias Allara | Cardiovascular disease epidemiology and prevention; whole-population and multi-omic data. | ea431@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology (CCGE) | ||
| Professor Antonis Antoniou |
Genetic epidemiology of breast, ovarian and prostate cancer; cancer risk modelling; risk stratification; cancer prevention; risk modifiers of BRCA1/2; statistical genetics |
aca20@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Professor Doug Easton |
Genetic epidemiology, methodology, breast / ovarian cancer |
dfe20@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Professor Nora Pashayan | Cancer screening; risk stratification; natural history modeling; evaluating screening strategies; decision modeling of benefit-harm trade offs of screening; implementation | np275@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| The Primary Care Unit (PCU) | ||
|
Professor Robbie Duschinsky |
Research has primarily focused on children and families. His work has addressed the development and contexts of mental illness, and the use of qualitative methods within primary care research |
rd522@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Professor Simon Griffin |
Research into preventing the growing burden of diabetes, obesity and related metabolic disorders by translating epidemiological knowledge into preventive action, and evaluating the effectiveness of different preventive approaches. |
ProfGP@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Professor Jonathan Mant |
Prevention & treatment of cardiovascular disease, particularly stroke, in primary care settings; epidemiology of stroke |
jm677@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Professor Fiona Walter | Primary care oncology and the patient pathway. | fmw22@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Professor Steve Morris | The cost-effectiveness of interventions to improve health across a range of intervention types, disease areas and population groups, and the determinants of health service use. | sm2428@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Dr Juliet Usher-Smith | Optimising the implementation of risk-stratified medicine to promote prevention of cancer and cardiovascular disease. | jau20@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Dr Anna Spathis | Brief, community-based complex interventions for the management of intractable fatigue and breathlessness in chronic disease. | aos10@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Dr Shobhana Nagraj | The design and evaluation of complex interventions in maternal child health, for low resource settings globally and locally. Focus on implementation science and translating evidence into practice. | sn378@cam.ac.uk |
| Dr Simon Noah Etkind | Palliative and End of Life Care; Designing and evaluating approaches to address uncertainty in serious illness | |
| Dr Ben Bowers | Palliative and end of life care, particularly dying care and symptom control in the community. Qualitative and mixed-methods research focussed on user-centred needs and including the voices of patients and families. | bb527@cam.ac.uk |
| The Healthcare Improvement Studies (THIS) Institute | ||
| Professor Mary Dixon-Woods | Generating a high-quality evidence-base to support improvement in the organisation, quality and safety of healthcare. | mary.dixon-woods@thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk |
|
Professor Graham Martin |
The organisation and delivery of healthcare, and particularly the role of professionals, managers and patients and the public in efforts at organisational change. | graham.martin@thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk |
| Dr Jan van der Scheer | Collaborative methods for healthcare improvement, including co-design and consensus-building approaches with multi-professional teams, members of the public, and others. | jan.vanderscheer@thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk |
| Dr Kristina Wanyonyi-Kay | Health service research. Effectiveness of quality and safety interventions in health service. Use of routine data and pragmatic evaluation of health service interventions. | kristina.wanyonyi@thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk |
| Professor Niels Peek | Translational data science for healthcare improvement, in particular: healthcare AI interventions, prediction models, clinical decision support, feedback interventions, electronic health records, and real-world evidence. | niels.peek@thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk |
| Professor Jane O’Hara | Patient safety, safety science, patient and family involvement and engagement, resilient healthcare theory and application, patient safety culture, patient safety measurement and monitoring, organisational ethnography, co-production. | jane.o'hara@thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk |