Andrea Williamson is a Professor of General Practice and Inclusion Health combining teaching, research and clinical practice. Her career focus is on caring for those less fortunate.
Andrea teaches and trains about the social determinants of health, inclusion health and trauma informed care. She leads on research about “missingness” in healthcare and is involved in wider research to improve care for people experiencing severe and multiple disadvantage.
Deputy Director of the GP teaching team at Glasgow Undergraduate Medical School, she set up and runs the BSc intercalated degree specialist course “Global Health Primary Care”.
She is a founding member of the steering group of GPs at the Deep End, deputy chair of the Health Inequalities Standing Group of the RCGP, a member of the NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research Prioritisation Committee UK, the Scottish Government Primary Care Health Inequalities Research Advisory Group and the National Suicide Preventions Advisory Group. She is a past Commissioner on the Poverty Truth Commission, and was the Primary Care member of the NICE Guideline Committee for integrated health and social care for people experiencing homelessness.
Andrea is a medical officer in Glasgow Alcohol and Drug Recovery Services and was a GP in the Glasgow Homeless GP practice from 2008 until it was closed in 2023.
