Anthony Harnden

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Anthony Harnden MB FRCGP is Professor of Primary Care, General Practitioner and Fellow of St Hugh's College at Oxford University. He is also director of graduate studies for the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences and sits on the General Medical Council, which is responsible for the regulation of all UK doctors and UK medical schools. He is also editorial advisor for the British Medical Journal . Harnden "has been the General Practitioner member of the Joint Committee of Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) since 2006 and Deputy Chairman since 2015." [1]

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Career

Harnden has specific research interests in influenza, pertussis and Kawasaki disease. [2]

In September 2020, Harnden won (along with co-authors) the Ig Nobel Diagnostic Medicine Prize for "determining that acute appendicitis can be accurately diagnosed by the amount of pain evident when the patient is driven over speed bumps." [3]

Other recognition

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COVID-19

Because "In order to prevent any perceived conflict of interest it was agreed that the JCVI Chair (Professor Andrew Pollard), who is involved in the development of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine at Oxford, would recuse himself from all JCVI COVID-19 meetings", [5] JCVI Deputy Chair Harnden acts in his stead on these matters.

On 2 December 2020, he was interviewed by American news channel CNN for more than 15 minutes because of his status on the JCVI, and forecast that "Priority groups in the UK will get vaccine by Easter." He mentioned the "JCVI statement" on Covid vaccines. [6]

On 7 December 2020, he was interviewed on Sky News on the vaccine rollout, and he stressed that the scientific data on vaccines were studied very closely by the authorities and "the public should be reassured the vaccine has undergone “clear and rigorous safety trials”" and said "it is up to us all, if we’re offered the vaccine, to take it for not only ourselves but our friends and family and wider society in general." He disclosed that he had contracted Covid in March 2020 and that he had recurring long covid. [7]

In February 2021 while on air at BBC Radio 4 where he was explaining his aforementioned vaccine opinion, Harnden was in such demand that he was "repeatedly interrupted" by LBC producers. [8]

Personal life

Harnden is married with three grown-up children, the eldest of whom studied at Leeds Medical School. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "Team - Anthony Harnden". University of Oxford. Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Professor Anthony Harnden MB ChB MSc FRCGP FRCPCH" (PDF). Nanjing Medical University. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  3. ↑ "Ig® Nobel Prize Winners". No. 30th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. Improbable Research. 17 September 2020.
  4. ↑ "Professor Anthony Harnden appointed to the Governing Body of the General Medical Council". Oxford University. St Hugh's College. 19 December 2016.
  5. ↑ "Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
  6. ↑ "Harnden: Priority groups in the UK will get vaccine by Easter". Cable News Network. A Warner Media Company. 2 December 2020.
  7. ↑ "Professor Anthony Harnden: 'It is up to us to take the vaccine'". Sky News. 7 December 2020.
  8. ↑ Lester, Daisy (27 February 2021). "'It's LBC, I told them not to ring': Vaccine expert repeatedly interrupted during radio interview by rival station" . The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-07.
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