Ian Banks

Professor Banks is the official spokesman on men’s health issues for the BMA, president of the European Men’s Health Forum and former president of the England & Wales Men’s Health Forum, past vice president of the International Society of Men’s Health, past deputy editor of the Men’s Health Journal and for six years the medical editor for The Men’s Health Magazine. He has written over 150 books and manuals on health including the NHS Good Health Guide.

Professor Banks was appointed visiting professor of men’s health in Europe by Leeds Metropolitan University in 2005 and awarded the Royal Society of Public Health Gold Medal for public health in 2007 followed by an appointment to the Academy in 2012. The City of Vienna and the International Society of Men’s Health honored Prof Banks with their award for public health in September 2007. In 2012 the RSPH appointed him as Professorial Fellow to the Society. He is now visiting professor at the Universities of Ulster and Leeds along with an honorary senior lecturer at Queens University medical school. He currently chairs the European Cancer Organisation (ECCO) patient advisory committee and the European Forum Against Blindness (EFAB). He was appointed vice president of the European Cancer Concord (ECC) in 2015.