Professor John Lynch
NHMRC Australia Research Fellow
John Lynch PhD, MPH, MEd, Dr. Med Sci (Hon)
John Lynch is Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health in the School
of Health Sciences at the University of South Australia and Professor of
Population Health at University of Bristol (UK). He received his PhD in
epidemiology from the University California at Berkeley. He recently
returned to Australia after 20 years in Nth America. He was previously in
the Dept. of Epidemiology at the Uni. Michigan and was a Canada Research
Chair in the Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University in
Montreal.
He is an internationally recognized scholar in epidemiology and population
health with more than 200 publications and wide-ranging research
collaborations in Brazil, Britain, Canada, Denmark, Korea, Sweden and the
US. He has received research funding from the US National Institutes of
Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, and the
National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia.
He has served on international and national advisory and review boards
including the WHO, European Science Foundation, NIH, Wellcome Trust, the UK
Medical Research Council, CIHR and the NHMRC. In 2007 his work in population
health was recognized with an honorary Doctorate in Medical Science from the
University of Copenhagen. In 2009 he was awarded a prestigious NHMRC
Australia Fellowship, the highest level of individual funding available to
health and medical researchers. His research interests include early life
determinants of health, lifecourse processes regulating health behaviours,
population health monitoring, evidence-based public health and improving the
public health research-policy nexus.
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