Rate My Professor Hajira Dambha-Miller

Dr Hajira Dambha-Miller, MRCGP, PhD, FHEA, serves as Associate Professor in Primary Care Research at the University of Southampton, Faculty of Medicine. As a qualified general practitioner, she leads the Big Data in Health Group within the Primary Care Research Centre. Her academic interests center on leveraging big data and artificial intelligence to prevent long-term conditions and improve outcomes for individuals living with multiple long-term conditions (multimorbidity). This work integrates advanced data analysis and epidemiology, intervention development and clinical trials, real-world application, and clinical implementation. She develops innovative digital tools, predictive models, and scalable solutions, drawing on primary care electronic health record datasets such as CPRD, SAIL, QResearch, ELSA, CHIA, and international resources from Canada and the USA. She curates novel datasets linking health, social care, and environmental data. Her interdisciplinary team includes data scientists, epidemiologists, mathematicians, engineers, environmental scientists, sociologists, psychologists, health economists, health and social care workers, alongside patients and public members.

Dambha-Miller co-leads the Methodology Workstream for the NIHR Multiple Long-Term Conditions Cross-NIHR Collaboration programme. She established and chaired the COVID-19 Big Data National Group, contributes to the International Monitoring Mortality Inequality Consortium, and holds an honorary fellowship at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge. She has provided evidence to Government ministers on big data methods and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of General Practice Open. Key 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), 'Temperature extremes, climate change and multimorbidity: a rapid scoping review' (2025, The Journal of Climate Change and Health), 'Feasibility trial of a new digital training package to enhance primary care practitioners’ communication of clinical empathy and realistic optimism' (2025, PLoS ONE), and 'Behaviour change, weight loss and remission of Type 2 diabetes' (2020). She received the WONCA International Presentation Prize in 2018.