Dr. Kate O Donnell

Biography

Professor Kate O'Donnell is part of General Practice and Primary Care since 1996. She originally trained in immunology and worked in London and Liverpool. A career move led her to work as co-ordinator of the West Scotland Health Services Research Network in the Department of Public Health at the University of Glasgow before joining GPPC. She is involved in research on postgraduate education and supervision of PhD and MD students. Her research focuses on inclusion health, the organisation and delivery of primary care services, and the evaluation of the routinisation of primary care policy into practice. She has a particular interest in the application of theory to research, especially Normalisation Process Theory. O'Donnell's key area of work focuses on migrant health, language, communication, and cross-cultural consultation in primary care, understanding the experiences of asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants accessing primary care services. She has worked on long COVID, striving to understand the experiences of those affected by the condition in relation to health care services. Her work also emphasizes primary prevention, particularly cardiovascular disease prevention in socioeconomically deprived communities and the use of digital health interventions for the organisation of out-of-hours primary care. Kate is a passionate advocate for academic primary care, championing the needs of clinical and non-clinical researchers.

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