Professor Richard Holland

About me:

Richard qualified in 1991 from Cambridge (pre-clinical training) and Oxford (clinical training) and entered Public Health after a variety of junior doctor posts. Those jobs took him from Oxford to Bristol, Bath and Torbay before a year in Sydney and Rockhampton, Australia, where his roles included work with the Royal Flying Doctor Service. On his return to the UK in 1997, he entered Public Health working in Somerset before moving to Cambridge and subsequently UEA in 1999.

He was awarded an MRC Fellowship in 2001 and have gained £3.4 million as a principal investigator, over £12 million as a co-applicant, plus over £4.5 million in educational grant funding from NHS and charitable bodies. He was promoted to a Chair at UEA in 2011 and his most recent major award was an NIHR programme grant with colleagues testing the effectiveness of a pharmacist independent prescribing intervention within care homes across England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

He has always had a passion for teaching and played an active role in the early days of UEA’s new innovative integrated medical course. He became its Course Director in 2008 and Deputy Head of School in 2012. He was subsequently appointed as Head of Leicester Medical School in 2017 and joined the University of Exeter in July 2023 as Deputy PVC and Dean of the Medical School.

Senior Executive Support: Lucy Buckland, l.buckland@exeter.ac.uk 

Interests:

I have wide-ranging research experience in Public Health and Health Services Research including clinical trials, systematic reviews, and economic evaluation. My research interests focus on pharmacy practice and medication review, and substance misuse - both opioid/opiate dependence and smoking cessation.

Qualifications:

PhD, University of East Anglia

DPH, distinction, Cambridge University

BM BCh, Oxford University

BA, Cambridge University

Additional post-graduate qualifications/examinations

Fellowship, Faculty of Public Health

Membership, Institute of Learning and Teaching (by assessment) – now FHEA

Membership, Faculty of Public Health