Prof Graham Watt  

MBChB, BMedBiol, MD, FRCGP, FRCP, FMedSci, FFPH

Norie-Miller Professor

tel: 0141 330 8345
email: G.Watt@clinmed.gla.ac.uk

Research interests

Professor Watt comes from Aberdeen where he qualified in 1976, and is Professor of General Practice, and Head of Section of General Practice and Primary Care.

After hospital posts in Shetland, Leicester, Aberdeen and Nottingham, he sought to combine training in epidemiology and general practice, moving to work with Dr Julian Tudor Hart at Glyncorrwg in South Wales, where they carried out a challenging series of community studies on the effect of dietary salt intake on blood pressure.

Returning to the community paediatrics scheme in Edinburgh, he then completed vocational training at Townhead Health Centre in Glasgow. During the next decade, he established the Glasgow WHO MONICA Project Centre, gained accreditation in public health medicine and worked first as a research manager for health services research in the Scottish Chief Scientist Office and then as a senior lecturer in public health at Glasgow University.

Since 1994, he has been professor of general practice at Glasgow – his first job combining and requiring experience in medical education, clinical medicine, epidemiology, research management and public health advocacy. He has a long term research interest in health and disease in families which he began at Glyncorrwg and has pursued via the Ladywell Blood Pressure Study in Edinburgh and the MIDSPAN Family Study in the west of Scotland. He also has interests in inequalities in health and health care and in supporting the next generation of academic general practitioners and primary care researchers.