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Sara Calderón

CLINICAL RESEARCH FELLOW

Sara Calderón-Larrañaga is an academic general practitioner and health systems researcher with interests in primary health care organisation, workforce policy and comparative health systems research. She combines academic work with clinical practice as a General Practitioner in London. She holds a Master’s degree in Primary Care Research from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2018) and a PhD in Primary Care and Public Health from Queen Mary University of London (2023).

Sara holds a part-time position at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, where she leads comparative international research on primary health care workforce policy and models of care in socioeconomically deprived and underserved populations, supported by an NIHR Senior Practitioner and Clinician Research Award. Alongside this role, she is a Postdoctoral Clinical Fellow at the School of Public Health, Imperial College London, where she contributes to the scientific work of the Lancet NUS-PRIME Commission (Pandemic Readiness through Institutions Mobilising Communities and Equity).

Her previous research, funded by the ESRC and NIHR, has examined community-oriented approaches to improving health and access to care in underserved populations, including the implementation and impact of social prescribing. She has worked as a consultant for the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), advised the Spanish Ministry of Health on primary health care workforce policy, and maintains collaborations with the WHO Collaborating Centre for Quality and Equity in Primary Health Care Systems at Amsterdam UMC and the WHO European Centre for Primary Health Care.

Sara’s research is concerned with how health systems can deliver accessible, equitable and sustainable primary health care, particularly in communities facing social and economic disadvantage. Her interdisciplinary work draws on public health and the social sciences, combining qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods approaches to examine primary health care organisation, workforce policy and health system change.