Professor of General Practice and Inclusion Health

Andrea E Williamson is a GP and Professor of General Practice and Inclusion Health at the University of Glasgow, combining research, teaching and clinical practice.

She is an internationally recognised expert in Inclusion Health (https://bjgp.org/content/73/735/436) and the research she leads about "missingness" in healthcare (https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/healthwellbeing/research/generalpractice/research/missingnessinterventions/)has inspired a new field of research and changed health policy and practice.

Andrea is a founding member of GPs at the Deep End Scotland (https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/healthwellbeing/research/generalpractice/deepend/) and is Deputy Chair of the Health Equity Special Interest Group, Royal College of General Practitioners (https://www.rcgp.org.uk/about/communities-groups/health-inequalities), UK. She is a member of the Scottish Government National Suicide Prevention Advisory Group and was the primary care representative on the NICE Guideline (NG 214) (https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng214) ‘Integrating health and social care for people experiencing homelessness’. She has been an National Institute of Health Research (UK) (https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding-opportunities) funding assessor since 2019.

Clinically Andrea is a medical officer in Glasgow Alcohol and Drug Recovery Services, was a GP in the Glasgow Homeless GP practice from 2008 until it closed in 2023, and currently locums in the Glasgow Youth Health Service.

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