Russell Viner

Russell Mardon Viner, CBE (born 1963) is an Australian-British paediatrician, data scientist and policy researcher. He is an international expert on child and adolescent health in the UK^[1] and internationally, was a member of the UK Governments SAGE (Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies) during the COVID-19 pandemic (advising on children, young people and schools) and was President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health from 2018-2021. He remains clinically active, seeing young people with diabetes each week at UCL Hospitals. His research focuses on the health of children and young people, from global analyses of social determinants of health and global burden of disease (GBD), through use of ‘big’ routine data in children and young people’s healthcare, to conducting intervention studies both at the school level and clinical interventions in obesity and diabetes.^[2]

Current positions:

1.     Professor of Adolescent Health,  UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.

2.     Director, NIHR Dept of Health Obesity Policy Research Unit (OPRU)

3.     Honorary Consultant in Adolescent Medicine and Endocrinology, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

4.     Vice-Chair, NHS England Transformation Board for Children and Young People (2019-) and Chair, Stakeholder Council for the Transformation Board

5.     Member, NHS Assembly (2019-)

6.     Non-Executive Director, Great Ormond St. Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (2020-)

Education and professional life

Viner studied medicine at the University of Queensland and then undertook professional training in paediatrics and paediatric endocrinology and diabetes in Brisbane, Australia and in the UK. He undertook a PhD the University of Cambridge in History and Philosophy of Science (1992-96), before moving to London in 1997 to set up the first Adolescent Medicine unit in the UK jointly between Great Ormond St. Hospital and UCL Hospitals.

He was appointed as an NIHR Senior Investigator in 2015 and is currently named on over £17 million in current research grants, being Chief/Principal Investigator on approximately £8 million, with funding obtained from the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR), the Medical Research Council (MRC), and charities.

Viner has published >300 publications (>200 as original research publications and a further >100 other peer-reviewed publications) in international journals, which have objectively had significant impact. His H-index is 84 (Google Scholar).

Degrees:

MBBS (First Class Honours), University of Queensland 1986

MPhil (Cantab) 1993

FRACP (Paediatrics) 1995

PhD (Cantab) 1997

FRCPCH 1998

FRCP (London) awarded 2000

Honorary FRACP 2020

Honours and awards

Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE), awarded in the 2022 New Year's Honours List.

Founder's Award, International Association of Adolescent Health, 2017

Senior Investigator, National Institute of Health Research (NIHR), 2016-2021 (did not reapply during pandemic)

Dame Elizabeth Murdoch Fellowship 2016, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital & University of Melbourne, Australia.

Milroy Lecturer, Royal College of Physicians of London, 2014.

HEFCE Clinical Senior Lecturership Award, 2007-12

Mid Career Fellowship, Health Foundation UK, 2002- 04

Cambridge Commonwealth Trust PhD Studentship 1993-96.

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