Professor Julie Parkes BM, BCh, DRCOG, MRCGP, MPH, PhD, MFPHM
Professor of Public Health, Head of the School of Primary Care, Population Sciences and Medical Education

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Professor Julie Parkes is Head of the School of Primary Care, Population Sciences and Medical Education and Professor of Public Health within Medicine at the University of Southampton.
Julie Parkes is doubly qualified as a GP and in Public Health. She currently is “new blood” HEFCE funded senior lecturer in PH with a Honorary consultant contact with SUHT. She qualified from Oxford in 1982 having done her pre- clinical studies in Cambridge. She trained to be a GP at Northwick Park GP VTS (1986). After 10 years as a principal in General Practice she joined the Wessex Public Health Training Programme. She became interested in Academic Public Health and in 2003 was awarded an MRC Clinical Fellowship in Health of the Public and Health Services Research. Her doctoral thesis was in Biomarkers in Chronic Liver Disease and the PhD was awarded in 2007. She has been an active member of Public Health Sciences & Medical Statistics department in Faculty of Medicine University of Southampton for 17 years and is Head of the School of Primary Care, Population Sciences and Medical Education.
Julie has had a sustained focus on biomarkers in chronic liver disease and chronic liver disease epidemiology for more than a decade. The biomarkers research is mainly in the diagnosis of the severity of liver fibrosis and in predicting clinical outcomes culminating in over 10 peer reviewed publications. Her epidemiology interest has been focused on Chronic Viral Hepatitis and NAFLD with an interest in Metabolic syndrome and the liver. She has an overarching interest in use of diagnostic tests in clinical practice.
Julie has had an interest in Offender Health since conducting a Health Needs Assessment in the Dorset Cluster of prisons. Currently her interests are in research into the health of people under the supervision of Probation service. She is Chair of the Southampton Offender Health Research Group which welcomes membership from all sectors and all Faculties. She teaches on both graduate and undergraduate medicine courses aspects of public health and clinical epidemiology.
Julie is an Educational Supervisor for Public Health Specialty Registrars attached to the Population Sciences group and is Academic coordinator for the Wessex Public Health Specialty Training scheme.
Julie has a strategic role as senior clinical epidemiology/health services methodology input in South Central Research Design Service, providing both a clinical and research perspective.
Qualifications
- MA Cambridge (1979)
- BM BCH Oxford (1982)
- MRCGP (1986)
- MFPH (2002)
- PhD University of Southampton (2007)
- CST Public Health (2008)
Appointments
- 01/09/2003-30/09/2014 Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton
- 01/10/2014-31/07/2018 Associate Professor in Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton
- 01/08/2018- Professor in Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton
- 01/08/2018-31/07/2021 Head of School of Primary Care, Population Sciences and Medical Education, University of Southampton