Medicine

Academic Unit: Primary Care and Population Science

Primary Care and Population Science encompasses a broad range of research disciplines and areas including primary care, public health, clinical epidemiology, medical statistics, qualitative methods, health economics and complementary medicine. There is an active postgraduate group and our staff make major contributions to postgraduate training and medical undergraduate teaching.

Currently Active: Yes

The constituent groups are:

  • Primary Care, based at Aldermoor Health Centre
  • Public Health Sciences and Medical Statistics, based at Southampton University Hospitals Trust incorporating:
    • Public Health
    • Medical Statistics 
    • NIHR Research Design Service (RDS) South Central  LINK
  • Health Economics group based at Chilworth Business Park

  • The Unit also hosts the local hub of the Primary Care Research Network (PCRN).

Management

The Director of the Unit is Professor Paul Roderick, and Deputy Director Dr Michael Moore. There is a Senior Management Team which meets every six to eight weeks. 

Research

Since 2008 the Primary Care group (research led by Professor Paul Little) has been part of the National School of Primary Care Research (NSPCR). The Unit has attracted a wide range of funding, notably from NIHR (Programme Grants, Health Services Research, EME, Public Health Research, RfPB, Health Technology Assessment) as well as other research bodies e.g. MRC, Arthritis Research Council and Macmillan Trust.

Our research is described in detail under the following Research Themes (and under personal pages of research staff):

Primary Care
Epidemiology and Cohorts 
Underpinning methodologies (medical statistics, qualitative methods, health economics)   
Health Inequalities
Addiction    
Cardiovascular  
Nutrition and Metabolism

Postgraduate education

We have currently 13 PhD/MD students, and 17 post-docs. We have an active early researchers group (REACH) which meets regularly.

We particularly welcome postgraduate students who have a good degree in one of the basic sciences such as Psychology, Geography, Statistics, or Social Sciences, and health professionals wishing to study part or full-time for a PhD (or MD if clinical).

Co-supervision of PhD students has been established with Health Sciences, Psychology, Geography and Mathematics.

Our staff teach on a variety of programmes (MSc in Public Health Nutrition, MSc in Allergy, Faculty PhD training programme, Masters in Public Health Practice at Health Sciences).

Undergraduate education

  • We co-ordinate public health, epidemiology and medical statistics teaching to the undergraduate BM4/5/6 medical students, and supervise fourth-year medical students' research projects (particularly in the Primary Care Group) 

Members of staff associated with this academic unit:

No research projects are currently associated with this academic unit.