Prof GREG IRVING, MA (Cantab) MSc (Oxon) MPH PhD FRCGP MRCP PFPH FAcadMEd

Greg Irving is an academic General Practitioner with a research focus on primary care service delivery and the management of multiple long-term conditions. He completed his medical training in Nottingham, followed by postgraduate studies at the Universities of Oxford and Liverpool, and a Clinical Lectureship at the University of Cambridge. He also undertook advanced research training as a Global Clinical Scholar at Harvard University.

Greg has been awarded three consecutive personal fellowships from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and has secured over £9 million in external grant funding. He is consistently recognised among the Stanford World Top 1% of scientists in his field. His research has informed over 70 policy reports across 30 major organisations, including the World Health Organization (WHO), OECD, European Observatory, World Bank, and NICE.

Clinically, Greg works as a General Practitioner and Consultant in Primary Care in St Helens, where he also leads an NIHR Primary Care Research Hub based in his practice.

He welcomes international collaboration and is open to supervising Master's and PhD students in aligned areas of research.

Greg is Director of the Health Research Institute and Director of the Edge Hill Primary and Integrated Care (EPIC). Greg's research interests have focused on developing and evaluating complex interventions for use in primary care. He has experience in systematic reviews, randomised trials, observational studies along with qualitative research approaches. He has experience of working with large dataset including UK BioBank, CPRD and routine health and social data. Greg is the Deputy Lead for the NIHR North West Coast Complex Intervention Theme. Greg currently supervises two NIHR North West Coast Applied Research Collaboration PhD studentships (Anna Evans and Lucy Kaluvu) focusing multimorbidity and health care use.  

Greg is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators. He leads the complexity and uncertainty theme on the MBChB at Edge Hill Medical School. His medical education interests reflect those of his research interests and in addition have focused on Deep End General Practice, global health, workplace based training and role modelling.

Greg Irving is the National Specialty Lead for General Practice within the NIHR Research Delivery Network and serves as Deputy Chair of the NIHR Health and Social Care Delivery Research (HSDR) funding panel. He holds an Honorary Professorship at the University of Oxford and is a nationally elected member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC).

Greg has previously contributed his expertise to several national bodies, including the NICE Medical Technologies Advisory Committee, the UK National Screening Committee, and the Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). He is a Fellow of the RCGP and a past recipient of the prestigious Yvonne Carter Award for Outstanding New Researcher in Primary Care.

Internationally, Greg has worked with the World Health Organization (WHO) in the Information, Evidence and Research Cluster, and was formerly the Research Lead for the WONCA Vasco da Gama Movement. He currently serves as a supervisor on the ‘UpCARE’ Yokohama-Kawasaki Urban Primary Care and Social Medicine Fellowship Programme in Japan.

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