Rate My Professor Chris Griffiths

Professor Chris Griffiths is Professor of Primary Care at the Wolfson Institute of Population Health in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at Queen Mary University of London. He serves as Acting Director of the Institute of Population Health Sciences and Centre Lead for the Centre for Primary Care and Public Health. Griffiths read Physiological Sciences at Keble College, Oxford, before completing a DPhil on the endocrine control of gut function at Green Templeton College, Oxford. He qualified in medicine with an MBBS from King’s College London School of Medicine and Dentistry. A general practitioner since 1992, he worked in practices in Hackney, east London, and later Cambridge. He holds visiting professorships at the University of Edinburgh and Imperial College London, and is Director of Graduate Studies at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, where he is also a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College.

Griffiths leads research programmes on the health effects of air pollution, asthma and chronic respiratory diseases, infectious diseases including tuberculosis, HIV and hepatitis, vitamin D biology, and domestic violence. He directs the CHILL cohort study evaluating impacts of London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone on children’s respiratory health and the MRC-funded NEXUS global partnership on non-exhaust emissions. He has published over 35 clinical trials and meta-analyses in high-impact journals such as The Lancet, BMJ and Thorax. Key publications include 'Impact of London’s low emission zone on air quality and children’s respiratory health' (Lancet Public Health, 2019), 'Vitamin D supplementation to prevent acute respiratory tract infections' (BMJ, 2017), and 'Promotion of rapid testing for HIV in primary care (RHIVA2)' (Lancet HIV, 2015). A Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Royal College of General Practitioners and Academy of Medical Sciences, he has contributed to NICE guidelines on tuberculosis and asthma, serves on the editorial boards of Thorax and Primary Care Respiratory Journal, and has supervised 18 doctoral students. He has twice won the Royal College of General Practitioners research paper of the year award.