Prof. Mark Ashworth

• Project Partner Kings College London
• Professor of Primary Care at Kings College London (KCL)

Mark Ashworth qualified in Medicine in 1979 and trained in Tropical Medicine before changing careers and working as a general practitioner in south London for 30 years. In parallel with a clinical career, he developed a research career at King’s College London with interests in primary care data, health inequalities and mental health outcomes data, developing the psychometric instrument PSYCHLOPS (www.psychlops.org.uk) used by WHO, Medecins Sans Frontieres and other organisations in their global mental health programmes. He is research lead for Lambeth DataNet, a pseudonymised database of 1.3 million patients registered at GP practices in one south London borough. Lambeth DataNet is now used extensively for primary care research, particularly since successful linkage with secondary and community mental health records providing a rich source of whole-person data.

Mark sadly passed away while working on this project.