George Davey-smith MA, MD, MSc

George Davey Smith is professor of clinical epidemiology at the University of Bristol and Director of the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (IEU). His major research interest relate to the use of genetic epidemiology for informing understanding of the causal influence of environmentally modifiable risk factors and how social inequalities in health are generated by exposures acting over the entire lifecourse.George has also worked on HIV\AIDS prevention in Nicaragua and India and on issues around the history of epidemiology, meta-analysis, lay epidemiology and epidemiological methodology.