Professor Nigel Unwin

at MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge

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Strategic Lead, Global Public Health Research, MRC Epidemiology Unit

Nigel Unwin is the Strategic Lead for Global Public Health Research at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge. Global Public Health Research looks at the increase in Non-Communicable Diseases in developing worlds, including measuring population behaviour such as physical activity, investigating the causes of behaviours, and increasing education and public awareness of the causes of NCDs.

Nigel studied Physiological Sciences, Medicine and Surgery at the University of Oxford and Community Medicine at the University of Manchester. He spent several years working for hospitals and health authorities, before becoming a Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University while studying his DM in Epidemiology at Oxford. After a spell as a Medical Office with the World Health Organisation he became Professor of Epidemiology at Newcastle, before moving to the University of the West Indies, where he has held multiple positions, and is currently a Visiting Professor of Population Health Services.

Nigel's current research includes measuring and assessing the impact of policy measures created to prevent NCDs in Caribbean nations, and looking in to whether the successful UK study in to reversing diabetes with low-calorie diets can be replicated in the Caribbean.

  • 11 May 2017, 6pm

    Behaviour and Health Research Unit Annual Lecture 2017

    The 2017 Behaviour and Health Research Unit (BHRU) annual lecture will be given by Corinna Hawkes, Professor of Food Policy, City University. The subject will be "Tackling childhood obesity: Are we doing enough?"

  • 8 February 2017, 5:30pm

    CSaP Annual Lecture 2017: Professor Chris Whitty, Department of Health

    There will be profound changes in health and disease over the next 20 years. The causes, demography and geography of ill health will shift significantly whilst the trend of demand for healthcare growing more rapidly than GNI is likely to continue. This lecture by Professor Chris Whitty discussed how it can predict, and help respond to, the policy challenges that will follow over the next 2 decades.