Leading Academic GP and Health Service Researcher
Inaugural RAND Chair of Health Services Research at the University of Cambridge where he founded and directed the Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research (CCHSR), a collaboration between the University of Cambridge and RAND Europe.(2009-2016)
Martin Roland trained in clinical medicine at the University of Oxford, where he obtained a first class honours degree and his doctorate. Following vocational training for general practice in Cambridge, he worked in London and Cambridge before moving to the Chair of General Practice in the University of Manchester in 1992. In 1994, he established and subsequently became Director of the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre. Between 2006 and 2009, he was also Director of the NIHR School for Primary Care Research, a collaboration between the five leading departments of primary care in England. Clinically active throughout his career, his main research interests were in developing methods of measuring quality and evaluating interventions to improve care using both quantitative and qualitative methods. With over 350 publications, his h-index is 80. Professor Roland was appointed CBE for services to medicine in 2003.
