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Dr Luisa Pettigrew MBChB MRCGP MSc DFFP DRCOG DCH BEM AFHEA

Clinical Research Fellow (NIHR Doc Fell)

United Kingdom

Luisa Pettigrew is a General Practitioner and NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow in the department of Health Services Research and Policy at LSHTM, and the department of Primary Care and Population Health at UCL. Luisa has been a GP since 2008, and holds a Master degree in Health Policy, Planning, and Financing. She has worked on research and policy projects relating to global health and medical education, health systems financing, organisational models of general practice, healthcare professional behaviour change, and the development of family medicine internationally with organisations including the World Health Organisation, World Organisation of Family Doctors, Royal College of General Practitioners, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Nuffield Trust. She has been an editorial board member for the journal Education for Primary Care and member of NICE guidelines update committees. Her doctoral project focuses on the role of inspections in general practice and their impact on quality. She is a seminar leader for the Issues in Public Health module, tutor for HPPF MSc students and co-leads LSTHM's Primary Health Care group.

Affiliations

Department of Health Services Research and Policy
Faculty of Public Health and Policy

Research

Research Area
Global Health
Health care financing
Health policy
Health services
Health services research
Health systems
Health workers
Quality improvement
Medicine
Policy analysis
Psychology
Primary health care

Selected Publications

Global health inequity and primary care.
ALLEN, LN; PETTIGREW, LM; EXLEY, J; Collin, H; Bates, S; Kidd, M;
2025
BJGP open
Integrating public health and primary care: a framework for seamless collaboration.
ALLEN, LN; Rechel, B; Alton, D; PETTIGREW, LM; MCKEE, M; Pinto, AD; EXLEY, J; Turner-Moss, E; Thomas, K; Mallender, J; Rajan, D; Dedeu, T; Bailey, S; Goodwin, N;
2025
BJGP open
Workplace-based knowledge exchange programmes between academics, policy-makers and providers of healthcare: a qualitative study.
Kumpunen, S; Matthews, J; Amuthalingam, T; Irving, G; Bridgwood, B; PETTIGREW, LM;
2024
BMJ leader
The role of Primary Health Care, primary care and hospitals in advancing Universal Health Coverage.
ALLEN, LN; PETTIGREW, LM; EXLEY, J; Nugent, R; BALABANOVA, D; Villar-Uribe, M; Baatiema, L; Shubber, Z; Mugambi, J; Kidd, M; Zewdie, A; Padula, I; Abimbola, S;
2023
BMJ global health
Workplace-based knowledge exchange programmes between academics, policymakers and providers in the health and social care sector: a scoping review and mapping exercise
Kumpunen, S; Bridgwood, B; Irving, G; Amuthalingam, T; Matthews, J; PETTIGREW, LM;
2023
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
What role is there for 'nudging' clinicians?
PETTIGREW, LM; MAYS, N;
2020
British Journal of General Practice
Dark Nudges and Sludge in Big Alcohol: Behavioral Economics, Cognitive Biases, and Alcohol Industry Corporate Social Responsibility.
PETTICREW, M; Maani, N; PETTIGREW, L; Rutter, H; VAN Schalkwyk, MC;
2020
The Milbank quarterly
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