Professor Greg Irving
Dir. Health Research Institute & PROF
Health Research Institute
Department: Health Research Institute
Email address: [email protected]
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9471-3700
Profile
Biography
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.
Research Interests
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.
Teaching
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.
- Molnupiravir plus usual care versus usual care alone as early treatment for adults with COVID-19 at increased risk of adverse outcomes (PANORAMIC): an open-label, platform-adaptive randomised controlled trial
- Long-term effects of intensive multifactorial therapy in individuals with screen-detected type 2 diabetes in primary care
- Psychometric and biomedical outcomes of glycated haemoglobin target-setting in adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes
- Metformin in non-diabetic hyperglycaemia
- International variations in primary care physician consultation time