Professor Simon de Lusignan

Professor Simon de Lusignan is a Governing Body Fellow of Green Templeton College. Simon is a Professor of Primary Care and Clinical Informatics at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford and a practicing GP.

Simon’s research interests are how to make better use of routinely collected health data and how technology can enable new roles in general practice and support people to self-care.

Simon leads the Clinical Informatics and Health Outcomes Research Group in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care, including looking after one of Europe’s oldest disease surveillance systems. This is called the Royal College of General Practice (RCGP) Research and Surveillance Centre (RSC) a nationally representative group of general practices who share data and are willing to collect virology swab specimens and extra blood tests from volunteer patients.

The RSC is a a long-term collaboration, of over 55 years, between RCGP and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and its predecessors; with Oxford now very much part of this collaboration. The main activities of the RSC are vaccine uptake and effectiveness, so things have been extremely busy across the COVID-19 pandemic; however it is also involved in a range of other areas of research including blood pressure control, diabetes and quality improvement initiatives.

Contact: simon.delusignan@phc.ox.ac.uk
PA: simon.delusignanpa@phc.ox.ac.uk