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Professor Gail Howard is an Associate Professor in Primary Care with a background in diagnostics and infections. She is also examining how primary care out-of-hours services can be improved and sits as the Deputy Director of the NIHR Community Healthcare Medtech and IVD Cooperative. She also still practices as a GP within Oxford.

What is your main area(s) of interest/expertise?

I’m interested in improving the diagnosis and management of infectious in primary care, and in how diagnostic tests can help us to do this.

What are you working on right now?

I am a co- Principle Investigator on the PRINCIPLE trial which is a response adaptive platform trial aiming to evaluate treatments for patients with COVID-19 in the community. We are aiming to find out which medicine could reduce a patient’s chance of hospitalisation and death.

Why is Oxford a good place to work in this field of research?

There is a huge energy and goodwill to achieve this very ambitious trial here in Oxford, and we are lucky to have such a wide range of expertise to draw upon

Find out more about Gail Hayward : https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/team/gail-hayward

Gail Hayward