Professor Chris Griffiths FMedSci

Christopher Griffiths, Professor of Primary Care at Queen Mary’s University, London, is a leading academic general practitioner. His work focuses on disadvantaged and migrant populations, with major advances spanning air pollution, HIV, tuberculosis, domestic violence, and vitamin D. He showed that London’s poor air quality stunts children’s lung growth influencing public demands for better air quality. He leads the evaluation of London’s new Ultra Low Emission Zone. He established the world’s largest community genetics programme as a platform for genotype/phenotype linkage studies using electronic health records. His work has changed clinical and public health practice and policy worldwide, altering UK and international guidelines, including recommendations on infectious disease and domestic violence screening, vitamin D supplementation, and air quality.