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Senior Visiting Fellow, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge
Professor Mike Kelly is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge. He was previously the Director of the Centre of Public Health Excellence at NICE where he led the development of public health guidance. He is a public health practitioner, researcher and academic.
He originally graduated in Social Science from the University of York, holds a Masters degree in Sociology from the University of Leicester, and undertook his PhD in the Department of Psychiatry in the University of Dundee. Before joining NICE, he was Director of Evidence and Guidance at the Health Development Agency. Professor Kelly has previously held academic posts at the Universities of Leicester, Dundee, Glasgow, Greenwich and Abertay. He is Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow in the General Practice and Primary Care Research Unit, University of Cambridge, Honorary Professor in Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care in the School of Dentistry, University of Manchester, and Honorary Professor Glasgow Caledonian University. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
Professor Kelly is a medical sociologist with research interests in health inequalities. He is pursuing a programme of research in Cambridge on this topic. His other research interests include the methods and philosophy of evidence-based medicine, prevention of heart disease, health-related behaviour change, the causes of non-communicable disease, end of life care, dental public health, transport and health, health assets approaches in community development and the sociology of chronic illness. From 2005-8 he was the co-leader of the Measurement and Evidence Knowledge Network of the World Health Organisation's Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. He has advised the House of Commons Health Select Committee and been a witness before parliamentary committees on a number of occasions. He has chaired committees for MRC, ESRC, the Foods Standards Agency, PHE and OHID.
He has published more than two hundred papers in medical, social scientific, philosophical and public health journals and is author/editor of nine books. In 2010 he was awarded the Alwyn Smith Prize of the Faculty of Public Health for his work on cardiovascular disease and alcohol misuse prevention. He was awarded Honorary Degree of Doctor of the University, by the University of York, in July 2014. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award for Public Health from Glasgow Caledonian University in November 2017.
