About the Department

The Research Department of Primary Care and Population Health at UCL is part of the Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care and is headed by Professor Elizabeth Murray.  

Mission:

• To undertake excellent research that is clinically relevant and impacts on the health of individuals and populations;
• To use our research, teaching and innovation to impact on health system improvement and service redesign;
• To work in partnership with people who use services, practitioners across the health and social care sectors, policy makers and other stakeholders relevant to increasing the impact of academic activities;
• To provide excellent teaching in primary care, population health and research methods;
• To strengthen the discipline of general practice through leadership in research, teaching and clinical practice;
• To foster professional development in all members to enable each individual to reach their full potential;

In order to do this we:

• Encourage all phases of clinical research from epidemiology through intervention development and evaluation to implementation and translational research, as well as methodological research and development;
• Encourage multi-disciplinary working, bringing together clinicians and scientists with a wide range of methodological skills and epistemologies;
• Foster excellent communication within the Department, across workgroups and disciplines, and with local, national and international colleagues and organisations; 
• Foster a learning environment where students (MB BS, BSc, MSc, MD, PhD), researchers, teachers and administrators are all supported in learning and continuing professional development;
• Invest in the career development of all of our staff;
• Promote an open, friendly and inclusive working environment.

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