George Davey Smith | |
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Born | 9 May 1959 |
Citizenship | British |
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Known for | Health inequalities; Life course approach to epidemiology; Mendelian randomization |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Epidemiology |
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Thesis | Physical fitness and risk factors for coronary heart disease (1991) |
George Davey Smith FRS (born 9 May 1959)[1] is a British epidemiologist. He has been professor of clinical epidemiology at the University of Bristol since 1994,[1][2] honorary professor of public health at the University of Glasgow since 1996, and visiting professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine since 1999.[1][3]
He was also the scientific director of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children[4] (until replaced in 2017 by Nic Timpson[5]) and a former editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Epidemiology.[2]