Trisha Greenhalgh


Patricia Mary "Trisha" Greenhalgh is a British professor of primary health care and a practising general practitioner.

Early life and education

Greenhalgh attended Folkestone Grammar School. She gained a BA in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 1980. She then qualified in Medicine from the University of Oxford in 1983.

Academic career

In April 2010, Greenhalgh was appointed Professor of Primary Health Care and Dean for Research Impact at Queen Mary University of London. 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.
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.
In September 2016, she was one of 14 scientists, doctors, and policymakers who signed onto an open letter 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.
She is a Senior Investigator at the National Institute for Health Research
She is the author of more than 220 peer-reviewed publications and 8 textbooks.
How to Read a Paper, her widely-read book on how to assess medical research papers, is now in its fifth edition.

Honours and awards

She has twice won the Royal College of General Practitioners Research Paper of the Year Award.
She accepted an OBE in 2001 for services to evidence based medical care.
In 2006, she was one of the authors who received the Baxter Award from the European Health Management Association.
She was elected to become a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2014.