Primary care research and teaching

The Primary Care Unit is part of the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge, one of Europe’s premier university departments of population health sciences.

Goals

– to identify and target the behaviours that lead to chronic disease;

– to improve early detection of disease;

– to improve the quality of health services;

– to deliver first class teaching to medical students, clinicians, researchers and educators.

Research themes

Behaviour and Health, Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes, Cancer, Health Services Research and End of Life Care.

Senior leaders

Professor Stephen Morris (Head of Unit), Professor Stephen Barclay, Dr Richard Darnton, Professor Christi Deaton, Professor Robbie Duschinsky, Professor Simon Griffin, Professor Jonathan Mant, Professor Theresa Marteau, Dr Anna Spathis, Professor Stephen Sutton, Dr Juliet Usher-Smith.