David Leon

He is currently a visiting Professor at the University of Bristol (2000-) and at the University of Stockholm (2005-) and an editor of the International Journal of Epidemiology (2001-). He has sat on and chaired numerous advisory and funding panels in the UK and elsewhere, and has been particularly involved with the work of UK Medical Research Council.

David Leon obtained his BA from University in Cambridge (1971) and his PhD from the University of London (1991). His doctoral research, conducted at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), was a study of mortality among printing workers based on a cohort that he established. He came back to LSHTM as a Lecturer in Epidemiology at LSHTM in 1985, and was made Professor of Epidemiology in 2000. In 2013 he was additionally appointed as a Professor in the Department of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø, Norway.