Harry Campbell

Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Public Health

Biography

Background

Current roles

  • Deputy Director, Usher Institute [2016-2021]
  • Joint-Director, WHO Collaborating Centre Population Health Research & Training [2013 - ]
  • Joint-Director, Centre for Global Health Research [2015-2021]
  • Joint-Director, NIHR Global Health Unit on Respiratory Health [2017 - ]
  • Co-Editor in Chief, Journal of Global Health [2011 - ]

Previous roles

  • UK training posts in paediatrics and infectious diseases
  • Experience working in Africa (MRC Gambia), Asia and the Pacific (Solomon Islands)
  • Medical officer / deputy programme manager [CDR – child health]; WHO Geneva
  • NHS Consultant in Public Health

Qualifications

  • BMedSci Hons (1st; Pharmacology; Edinburgh)
  • MBChB (Edinburgh); MD (Edinburgh)
  • MSc (distinction; LSHTM)
  • MRCP / FRCP; MFPH / FFPH; FRSE, FMedSci

Undergraduate teaching

Professor Campbell has acted as a personal tutor [now professional mentor] to 10 students. He supervises 1-2 BMedSci (Hons) students and several SSC5 students each year.

Postgraduate teaching

Postgraduate

Professor Campbell runs an MPH course on global health epidemiology, teaches on 2 other MPH courses and supervises 1-2 MPH student dissertations per year. He has acted as the chair of the MPH Board of Examiners meetings until 2020. He also teaches on other post-graduate courses. Professor Campbell acts as external examiner at Imperial College London and, until recently, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

Postgraduate Research

Professor Campbell supervises 7 PhD students currently either as first or second supervisor – global (child) health, colorectal cancer (genetic) epidemiology and genetic epidemiology. He acts as mentor to several Chancellors Fellows and other early career researchers and to one senior professorial staff member. He is co-lead of the Usher Network for COVID Evidence Reviews [UNCOVER] which fosters staff-student collaborations and training in evidence synthesis.

Research summary

Harry Campbell has a number of research interests:

Long standing experience in many aspects of global child health with a particular long-term interest in many aspects of childhood respiratory infections. Recent and current projects have explored global burden of disease, disease surveillance, use of linked routine heath datasets, risk factors and case management guidelines. Two major grants include a new EU IMI programme (led by the University of Edinburgh) focusing on RSV disease in children and adults; and an NIHR Global Health Unit on Respiratory Health (where his role is co-Director with Aziz Sheikh).

Professor Campbell has had a long term interest in colorectal cancer genetics and epidemiology. He has held a CRUK Programme grant continuously from 2003 – 2020 with Malcolm Dunlop, Susan Farrington and Evi Theodoratou (current Programme Grant value £3.4 million).

Professor Campbell has established population-based studies and biobanks in several genetic isolate populations in work supported by MRC through Programme Grants (QTL in Health and Disease) from 2000 – 2017 with Alan Wright, Igor Rudan, Nick Hastie, Chris Haley, Jim Wilson, Caroline Hayward and Vernoique Vitart (Programme Grant value ~£6 million over 5 years). This programme has been renewed for a further 5 years from 2018 and is led by Professors Jim Wilson, Chris Haley and Caroline Hayward. He has taken part in many GWAS consortia.

He is an author on >600 original articles in international journals and has been listed on www.highlycited.com since 2014.

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