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Assistant Director, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge
Simon Griffin is Professor of General Practice at the University of Cambridge, Group Leader for the Prevention Group in the Primary Care Unit, the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit (www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk) and CEDAR (the UKCRC Public Health Centre of Excellence for Diet and Activity Research, http://www.cedar.iph.cam.ac.uk/), Honorary Professor of General Medical Practice at Aarhus University Denmark, Honorary Consultant at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, assistant General Practitioner at Lensfield Medical Practice (http://www.lensfieldpractice.org/), NIHR Senior Investigator (https://www.nihr.ac.uk/our-faculty/senior-investigators/) and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (https://acmedsci.ac.uk/), the Royal College of General Practitioners (http://www.rcgp.org.uk/) and Wolfson College (http://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/). He qualified from the London Hospital Medical College in 1986 and trained in Clinical Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Southampton and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine prior to his appointment to the University of Cambridge in 1998. In 2005 Simon joined the MRC Epidemiology Unit as Assistant Director and was appointed Professor of General Practice in May 2013. Away from work Simon plays soccer and surfs.
Simon leads a research programme which contributes to efforts aimed at preventing the growing burden of non-communicable disease including obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer, by translating epidemiological knowledge into preventive action, and evaluating the effectiveness of a range of preventive approaches in randomised trials. He published the first diabetes risk score and the first trial of screening for type 2 diabetes. He has completed over 30 trials and authored over 350 publications
