Professor F Azeem Majeed

I am Professor of Primary Care and Head of the Department of Primary Care & Public Health at Imperial College London. I qualified at the University of Wales College of Medicine in Cardiff, Wales. I am accredited in both General Practice and Public Health Medicine. I began my academic career at St. George's Hospital Medical School as a Lecturer in Epidemiology & Public Health Medicine. I was later promoted to Senior Lecturer in Primary Care. I then moved to a Senior Lecturer post at University College London, where I had a joint appointment between the School of Public Policy and the Department of Primary Care & Population Sciences. In 2000, I gained a five-year Primary Care Senior Scientist Award, which allowed me to spend more time on research. I was promoted to Professor by University College London in 2002. I took up the post of Professor of Primary Care and Head of the Department of Primary Care & Public Health at Imperial College London in 2004.

My research interests are in:

• chronic disease management, particularly diabetes & cardiovascular disorders
• health policy and the organisation and delivery of health care
• the use of information for policy, planning and research
• developing innovative methodologies for primary care and public health research using clinical and administrative databases
• the use of new technology to improve health care

You can view a list of my recent publications on the Publications Page. I also have an important role in postgraduate education and training in both general practice and public healt at Imperial College. I am the Course Director of the Imperial College Master of Public Health (MPH) programme. I am a member of the Steering Group if the Imperial GP Specialty Training Programme, the first GP Training Programme in England to be based in a medical school.

I am also Associate Director (Primary Care) for the UK Diabetes Research Network, Co-Director of the NIHR CLAHRC for NW London and Director of the NIHR London Research Design Service Team based at Imperial College. Further information on my academic work is available at my personal website, www.azmaj.org. You can view my citation metrics using Google Scholar Citations.

I am a part-time general practitioner in the Clapham area of London, where I have worked since 1995. As a General Practitioner, I deal with all the typical medical, psychological and social problems that present in inner-city primary care. My clinical interests are in preventive healthcare, cardiovascular medicine and infectious diseases. You can learn more about my practice by taking a look at its website, http://www.claphamhealth.nhs.uk/. You can read my blog at http://www.medical-centre.blogspot.com/. I also contribute to the Department of Primary Care & Public Health Blog and the MPH Blog.

PhD Opportunities

Enquiries from prospective PhD students are welcome in any of the research areas listed above or in related areas. Current and past PhD students have undertaken studies on a wide ranging selection of projects, including prescribing policy in Thailand, obesity management in Brunei, health care equity, deaths from drug overdose, the impact of pay for performance schemes on quality of care, ethnic and socio-economic differences in the management of diabetes and its complications, sceening for diabetes and other chronic diseases, the use of new technology to improve health care, and medical ethics.

Inaugural Lecture

My Inaugural Lecture was held on 22 May 2006 with the theme "Using Primary Care Data for Epidemiological and Health Services Research".  Please see the links to the Lecture below.

 Inaugural Text  Inaugural Presentation

An Example of my Research

The figure below gives a key finding from one of my research articles. In this study, along with colleagues from the USA, Australia and New Zealand, I carried out a study of primary care practice in three countries. The figure shows annual exposure to primary care physicians in the USA, Australia and New Zealand. There are striking differences between the countries that may have important implications for the provision of effective health services.