KATE O'DONNELL

Professor of Primary Care Research & Development
BSc (Hons), MPH, PhD, FHEA
E-mail Kate.O'Donnell@glasgow.ac.uk 
Tel 0141 330 8329  

Biography

Kate O'Donnell joined General Practice and Primary Care as a lecturer in 1996 after working as an immunologist and then as co-ordinator of the West of Scotland Health Services Research Network in the then Department of Public Health, University of Glasgow.

She is involved in both research and postgraduate education, and is Postgraduate Convenor for the Institute of Health and Wellbeing.

Research interests include:

• Service delivery and organisation in primary care
• Evaluation of primary care policy developments
• Access to primary care, for deprived and socially excluded groups
• Migrant health, including their perceptions of health and access to care
• The boundaries between health care professionals
• Normalisation and sustainability of policy into practice
• Patients' and professionals' views of candidacy
• The use of mixed methods in primary care research

Esteem factors

• Member of the Executive of the Society for Academic Primary Care (2002 to 2010)
• Associate Editor, BMC Family Practice 
• Member of Review Panel for Royal College of General Practitioners Research Paper of the Year (from 2005 to 2009)
• Review Panel, Chief Scientist Office, Health Services Research Postgraduate Studentships and Fellowships (from January 2003 to date)
• Member of NIHR Peer Learning Sets on Policy into Practice and the Normalisation Process Model

Subject areas in which PhD supervision can be offered

• Organisation and delivery of services
• Skill mix and professional boundaries
• Normalisation of new services and technologies
• Care for underserved populations
• Health care for migrant populations
• Approaches to anticipatory care

Publications
Recent grants and current projects
PI profile