The Medical Research Council (MRC) is responsible for co-coordinating and funding medical research in the United Kingdom. It is part of United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI),which came into operation 1 April 2018,and brings together the UK's seven research councils,Innovate UK and Research England. UK Research and Innovation is answerable to,although politically independent from,the Department for Business,Energy and Industrial Strategy.
Sir Kenneth Charles Calman,HonFAcadMEd is a Scottish doctor and academic who formerly worked as a surgeon,oncologist and cancer researcher and held the position of Chief Medical Officer of Scotland,and then England. He was Warden and Vice-Chancellor of Durham University from 1998 to 2006 before becoming Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. He held the position of Chair of the National Cancer Research Institute from 2008 until 2011. From 2008 to 2009,he was convener of the Calman Commission on Scottish devolution.
Eve Cordelia Johnstone CBE FRCP FRCPE FRCPGla FRCPsych FMedSci FRSE is a Scottish physician,clinical researcher,psychiatrist and academic. Her main research area is in the field of schizophrenia and psychotic illness. She is emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Honorary Assistant Principal for Mental Health Research Development and Public Understanding of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. She is best known for her 1976 groundbreaking study that showed brain abnormalities in schizophrenic patients compared to a control group.
Sir David Keith Peters is a retired Welsh physician and academic. He was Regius Professor of Physic at the University of Cambridge from 1987 to 2005,where he was also head of the School of Clinical Medicine.
The Research Council for Complementary Medicine (RCCM) is a charitable organisation (UK Registered Charity Number 1146724) founded in 1983 to develop and promote good quality research into alternative and complementary medicine (CAM) and enhance evidence-based medicine in this area.
Nikolas Rose is a British sociologist and social theorist. He is Distinguished Honorary Professor at the Research School of Social Sciences,in the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the Australian National University and Honorary Professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies at University College London. From January 2012 to until his retirement in April 2021 he was Professor of Sociology in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King's College London,having joined King's to found this new Department. He was the Co-Founder and Co-Director of King's ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health. Before moving to King's College London,he was the James Martin White Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics,director and founder of LSE's BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience,Biomedicine,Biotechnology and Society from 2002 to 2011,and Head of the LSE Department of Sociology (2002–2006). He was previously Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths,University of London,where he was Head of the Department of Sociology,Pro-Warden for Research and Head of the Goldsmiths Centre for Urban and Community Research and Director of a major evaluation of urban regeneration in South East London. He is a Fellow of the British Academy,the Royal Society of Arts and the Academy of Social Sciences,and a Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Sussex,England,and Aarhus University,Denmark.
Sir John Stewart Savill,FRS,FMedSci is the Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council (MRC) in the UK and the Head of the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine and a Vice Principal of the University of Edinburgh.
Social Science &Medicine is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering social science research on health,including anthropology,economics,geography,psychology,social epidemiology,social policy,sociology,medicine and health care practice,policy,and organization. It was established in 1967 and is published by Elsevier.
Sir John Irving Bell is a Canadian-British immunologist and geneticist. From 2006 to 2011,he was President of the United Kingdom's Academy of Medical Sciences,and since 2002 he has held the Regius Chair of Medicine at the University of Oxford. He was since 2006 Chairman of the Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research (OSCHR) but in 2020 became a normal member. Bell was selected to the Vaccine Taskforce sometime before 1 July 2020. Bell is also on the board of directors of the SOE quango Genomics England.
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is a UK-based independent charitable body,which examines and reports on bioethical issues raised by new advances in biological and medical research. Established in 1991,the Council is funded by the Nuffield Foundation,the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust. The Council has been described by the media as a 'leading ethics watchdog',which 'never shrinks from the unthinkable'.
Catherine S. Peckham FFPHM is a British paediatrician.
The various academic faculties,departments,and institutes of the University of Oxford are organised into four divisions,each with its own Head and elected board. They are the Humanities Division;the Social Sciences Division;the Mathematical,Physical and Life Sciences Division;and the Medical Sciences Division.
Sheila Macdonald Bird OBE FRSE FMedSci is a Scottish biostatistician whose assessment of misuse of statistics in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and BMJ series ‘Statistics in Question’led to statistical guidelines for contributors to medical journals. Bird's doctoral work on non-proportional hazards in breast cancer found application in organ transplantation where beneficial matching was the basis for UK's allocation of cadaveric kidneys for a decade. Bird led the Medical Research Council (MRC) Biostatistical Initiative in support of AIDS/HIV studies in Scotland,as part of which Dr A. Graham Bird and she pioneered Willing Anonymous HIV Surveillance (WASH) studies in prisons. Her work with Cooper on UK dietary bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) exposure revealed that the 1940–69 birth cohort was the most exposed and implied age-dependency in susceptibility to clinical vCJD progression from dietary BSE exposure since most vCJD cases were younger,born in 1970–89. Bird also designed the European Union's robust surveillance for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in sheep which revolutionised the understanding of scrapie.
Cameron Richard Donaldson is a Scottish economist who is Yunus Chair and distinguished Professor of Health Economics at Glasgow Caledonian University,the University for the Common Good. From 2016 to 2021,he was Pro Vice Chancellor Research,during which time Glasgow Caledonian became the first university to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals as the framework for its Research Strategy. Donaldson is also a Professor of Health Economics at the Australian National University.
Walter Werner Holland was an epidemiologist and public health physician.
The Nuffield Department of Population Health (NDPH) of Oxford University is located at the Old Road Campus in Headington,Oxford,England. It is one of the largest departments within Oxford University's Medical Sciences Division. The head of department is Professor Sir Rory Collins.
Rosalind Raine is a British applied health research scientist,public medicine doctor,professor of health care evaluation and the founding head of the Department of Applied Health Research at University College London (UCL).
Dawnette Ethilda Edge is a British medical researcher who is a Professor of Mental Health and Inclusivity at the University of Manchester. Her research investigates racial inequalities in mental health,including the origins of the overdiagnosis of schizophrenia in British African-Caribbean people.
Patricia Kingori is a British Kenyan sociologist who is a professor at the University of Oxford. Her research considers the experiences of frontline health workers around the world. She is particularly interested in misinformation and pseudoscience. In 2015,Kingori was included on the Powerlist.
Michaela Jane Benzeval CBE is a British sociologist,Professor and Director of Understanding Society at the University of Essex. She was appointed a Commander of the British Empire in the 2024 New Year Honours.
