Patricia Mary "Trisha" Greenhalgh (born 11 March 1959) is a British professor of

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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

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in 1980. She then qualified in Medicine from the

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in 1983.

Academic career

In April 2010, Greenhalgh was appointed Professor of Primary Health Care and Dean for Research Impact at

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. 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

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calling for an inquiry into Secretary of State for Health

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's claim that inadequate weekend staffing at the

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led to avoidable patient deaths. She is a Senior Investigator at the

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(NIHR). She is the author/co-author of more than 580 peer-reviewed publications and 8 textbooks. ''How to Read a Paper'', her widely-read book on how to assess medical research papers first appeared in 1997. The sixth edition was published in 2019.

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

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in 2014.

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