Dr Rakesh Modi

Dr Modi completed his medical degree with distinction at the University of Cambridge and University College London (UCL), before undertaking his junior doctor years, a GP Academic Clinical Fellowship at UCL and obtaining a Masters in Public Health with distinction from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He obtained prize winning memberships and diplomas in general practice, medical specialties, obstetrics and gynaecology and paediatrics. During these years he secured grants and researched, published and presented largely on inequalities and global health. He led international research projects for the Royal College of GPs, was a trustee and chair of a charity working in Zimbabwe, and formed research collaborations with Japan, Uganda and Ghana. He created a national lecture series, course organised and lectured on public health (mainly screening), primary care and pathogenesis. After his PhD in Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge on the SAFER trial (the largest ever trial of screening for a heart condition that leads to strokes), he is now a Clinical Senior Research Associate and a GP partner delivering research within his own practice. He is a co-investigator and leads the process evaluation of the SAFER trial, leads the process evaluation on TACTICAL 1 (a study adding an abdominal scan to the lung cancer screening programme), is a co-investigator on research into inequalities in rheumatological studies, and collaborates on Primarybreathe (a trial of chronic breathlessness interventions) among other internal and external collaborations. He founded and chairs the Inequalities Research Network helping researchers in the East of England co-design inclusive research into inequalities, is on the Digital Health Health Priority Setting Partnership steering committee, is a RCGP Clinical Adviser on national policy, having been the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough ICB lead for research. He lectures, supervises and mentors researchers (clinical and non-clinical) of various levels on public health, primary care and careers. He has been awarded multiple national and international prizes including the RCGP/CRN clinical researcher award.