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. Our work focuses on advancing primary care research and education to improve patient outcomes, influence healthcare policy, and train the next generation of clinicians, researchers, and educators.
Our Mission
Through our research and teaching, we aim to:
- Identify and target the behaviours that lead to chronic disease;
- Improve early detection and diagnosis of disease;
- Enhance the quality of health services and patient care;
- Deliver first class teaching and training to medical students, clinicians, researchers and educators.
Our Teaching
We are a highly active teaching environment, fostering learning in academic primary care, general practice and applied clinical research.
Our Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement
Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) is central to our work, ensuring that our research is actively shape by collaboration and partnership. This is an essential quality that makes our research more relevant, inclusive and impactful, directly leading to outcomes that genuinely benefit communities and address real-world health needs.