🏥 Welcome to our Unit
Welcome to the Primary Care Epidemiology Unit. We are based in the Centre for Primary Care at the Wolfson Institute for Population Health, Queen Mary University of London.
👨💻 Who we are
Our academic unit is led by Professor Julia Hippisley-Cox.
We are a team of:
- GPs and doctors
- Pharmacists
- Statisticians and epidemiologists
- Data scientists and software developers
- Patients and public partners
Our Research Interests
Disease patterns
We study the natural history of a wide range of diseases to better understand who is most affected, which factors increase the risk of illness and how conditions develop and change over a person’s lifetime.
Safety of Medicines
We use very large databases of electronic health records to gain knew knowledge about the risks and benefits of medicines.
Risk Prediction Tools
We develop novel risk prediction tools which are used across the NHS to identify patients at increased of major health conditions such as heart disease and cancer. They help shared decision-making between patients and clinicians.