Luisa Pettigrew is a General Practitioner and NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow in the department of Health Services Research and Policy at LSHTM, and the department of Primary Care and Population Health at UCL.

Luisa has been a GP since 2008, and holds a Master degree in Health Policy, Planning, and Financing. She has worked on research and policy projects relating to global health and medical education, health systems financing, organisational models of general practice, healthcare professional behaviour change, and the development of family medicine internationally with organisations including the World Health Organisation, World Organisation of Family Doctors, Royal College of General Practitioners, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Nuffield Trust. 

Her doctoral project focuses on the role of inspections in general practice and their impact on quality.  She is currently also an editorial board member of the journal Education for Primary Care and member of a NICE guidelines update committee.