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Professor Prabhat Jha has started in the role of Head of Department, taking over from Professor Sir Rory Collins who was Head of Department from its inception in 2013.

Professor Prabhat Jha

Most recently, he was the University Professor of Global Health and Epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, and Director of the Centre for Global Health Research, Unity Health Toronto. He has served on a number of advisory boards and has been a health adviser to several governments.

Professor Jha said ‘It is a privilege to take over the leadership of Oxford Population Health from Rory Collins who has so deftly combined a focus on world-leading science with a commitment to doing the best for staff and students. Our department is lauded worldwide for its excellence in clinical trials and population-based epidemiology and as an innovator in methods for both. I am looking forward to building on this foundation with colleagues in the department, in other areas of the University, and around the world.’

Professor Jha’s research focuses on nationwide epidemiological studies of the major causes of death in developing countries (including tobacco, alcohol, and cardiometabolic risk factors), and epidemiological research methods in low-resource settings, including randomised intervention studies. He is particularly interested in the use of routine mortality data for analytic epidemiology, and tobacco control policy in developed and developing countries. His research enabled a worldwide treaty on tobacco control signed now by 180 countries. He has quantified malaria mortality in children and adults in various settings, leading to vaccine trials.

 

Read the full story on the Nuffield Department of Population Health website.

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