Rate My Professor Hajira Dambha-Miller

Hajira Dambha-Miller is an Associate Professor in Primary Care Research in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton, qualified as MRCGP, PhD, FHEA. A practising general practitioner, she leads the Big Data in Health Group, employing big data analytics and artificial intelligence to prevent long-term conditions and enhance outcomes for people living with multiple long-term conditions through holistic, integrated care approaches. Her research programmes encompass advanced data analysis, epidemiology, intervention development, clinical trials, real-world applications, and implementation strategies. She utilises primary care electronic health record datasets including CPRD, SAIL, QResearch, ELSA, and CHIA, alongside international data from Canada and the USA, curating novel linked datasets on health, social care, and environmental factors to identify drivers of multimorbidity. Key projects include the AIM study on clustering health and social care needs in multimorbidity, investigations into multimorbidity and temperature extremes, and analyses of stress, loneliness, social isolation, and vaccination coverage in relation to multiple long-term conditions.

Dr Dambha-Miller co-leads the Methodology Workstream of the NIHR Multiple Long-Term Conditions Cross-NIHR Collaboration programme and contributes to the International Monitoring Mortality Inequality Consortium. She established and chaired the COVID-19 Big Data National Group, serves as an honorary fellow at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, and is Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of General Practice Open, providing evidence to Government ministers on big data interpretation. Notable publications include 'Artificial Intelligence for Multimorbidity: Managing Complexity at Scale' (2026, International Journal of Public Health), 'A Multidimensional Framework for Mapping Social Need to Electronic Health Records in People with Multimorbidity' (2026, Scientific Reports), 'Variations in Social Care Need Reporting Amongst GP Practices in England: A Retrospective Cohort Study in People with Multimorbidity' (2025, BMC Primary Care), 'Behaviour Change, Weight Loss and Remission of Type 2 Diabetes: A Community-Based Prospective Cohort Study' (2019, Diabetic Medicine), and 'Association Between Primary Care Practitioner Empathy and Risk of Cardiovascular Events and All-Cause Mortality Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: A Population-Based Prospective Cohort Study' (2019, Journal of General Internal Medicine). She received the WONCA International Presentation Prize in 2018.