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Trisha Greenhalgh

Trisha Greenhalgh

British doctor and professor


Patricia Mary Greenhalgh OBE FRCP FRCGP FMedSci (born 11 March 1959) is a British professor of primary health care at the University of Oxford, and retired general practitioner.

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Early life and education

Trisha Greenhalgh was born on 11 March 1959.[1] She attended Folkestone Grammar School.[2] She gained a BA in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 1980, and three years later graduated in medicine from the University of Oxford.[3]

Academic career

In April 2010, Greenhalgh was appointed Professor of Primary Health Care and Dean for Research Impact at Queen Mary University of London.[3] Her role included setting up and leading the Healthcare Innovation and Policy Unit in the Centre for Health Sciences at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry.[4]

In January 2015, Trish Greenhalgh took up the post of Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences and Fellow of Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford.[5]

In September 2016, she was one of 14 scientists, doctors, and policymakers who signed onto an open letter[6] to Prime Minister UK Theresa May calling for an inquiry into Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt's claim that inadequate weekend staffing at the National Health Service led to avoidable patient deaths.[7][8]

She is a Senior Investigator at the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).[9]

She is the author/co-author of more than 580 peer-reviewed publications and 8 textbooks.[10][11]

How to Read a Paper, her widely-read book on how to assess medical research papers first appeared in 1997.[12] The sixth edition was published in 2019.[13]

With Liz O'Riordan, she co-authored The Complete Guide to Breast Cancer, published by Vermilionin in 2018.[14]

Honours and awards

She has twice won the Royal College of General Practitioners Research Paper of the Year Award.[15]

She accepted an OBE in 2001 for services to evidence based medical care.[16]

In 2006, she was one of the authors who received the Baxter Award from the European Health Management Association.[17]

She was elected to become a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2014.[15]

Selected publications

Books

  • How to Read a Paper: The Basics of Evidence-Based Medicine. John Wiley & Sons. 2014. ISBN 978-1-118-80096-6.

Articles


References

  1. Greenhalgh, Trisha (6 June 1992). "Parenting should be taught in school". BMJ. 304 (6840): 1514. doi:10.1136/bmj.304.6840.1514. S2CID 220172004.
  2. "Primary Care and Public Health staff: Greenhalgh, Trisha". Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
  3. "Professor Trish Greenhalgh joins Queen Mary" (Press release). Queen Mary University of London. 14 April 2010. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
  4. editor, Denis Campbell Health policy (15 September 2016). "Doctors urge inquiry into Jeremy Hunt's NHS 'weekend effect' claims". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 1 October 2017. {{cite news}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  5. Rebello, Lara (16 September 2016). "NHS 'weekend effect': Stephen Hawking and other scientists urge inquiry into Jeremy Hunt's claims". International Business Times UK. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
  6. "Public and voluntary sector honours: OBE". The Guardian. 30 December 2000. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  7. "Health specialists win European award for best publication" (Press release). University College London. 29 June 2006. Retrieved 29 January 2015.

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