Research and teaching to reduce ill health
We carry out research and education at the highest international standards of excellence. Our goals are to:
- identify and target the behaviours that lead to chronic disease;
- improve early detection of disease;
- improve the quality of health services;
- deliver first class teaching to medical students, clinicians, researchers and educators.
We have five research themes: Behaviour and Health, Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes, Cancer, Health Services Research and End of Life Care.
Education and training runs through all our work – for medical students and primary care researchers at every level.
The Primary Care Unit is based within the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge, one of Europe’s premier university departments of population health sciences. Professor Jonathan Mant is Head of Unit and our Group leaders are Dr Stephen Barclay, Professor Christi Deaton, Dr Robbie Duschinsky, Professor Simon Griffin, Dr Richard Darnton, Professor Mary Dixon-Woods, Professor Theresa Marteau, Professor Stephen Sutton and Dr Fiona Walter.
The PCU is a member of the NIHR School for Primary Care Research, which is a partnership between eight leading academic centres for primary care research in England.
See more about the NIHR School for Primary Care Research in Cambridge
SAPC South East conference 'Academic Primary Care: Optimising Impact' 23 & 24 Jan 2020
Registration opens soon.
Abstract submissions and workshop proposals will be invited in September 2019.
Patient and public involvement in research
Patients and the public are key to the design and conduct of research within the Primary Care Unit.
See resources for researchers and read our latest blogs about public engagement.
The Primary Care Unit provides teaching to all Cambridge medical students.
We deliver clinical teaching in general practice, and cover professional skills and palliative care.
Primary Care Unit News
Anticipatory Prescribing in the community: 30 Oct workshop to develop national professional guidance
After the success of its two previous workshops on Anticipatory Prescribing, the Cambridge Palliative and End of Life Care Group is…
Case study: boosting the involvement of medical students in research at Cambridge
A new and innovative Medical Student Systematic Reviews Group, at the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, enabled 53…
Blog by Madi Fairey and Max Bayne, both final year medical students at the University of Cambridge Madi and Max…