Michael Goldacre

Michael John Goldacre (born 3 January 1944 in Melbourne, Australia^[1]) is a medical doctor who has been professor of public health at the University of Oxford since 2002, and a fellow of Magdalen College since 1985.^[1] He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health.^[1]

Goldacre has been at the University of Oxford since 1974, when he was appointed clinical lecturer in social and community medicine.^[1] Since 1986, he has been the Director of the Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology. He was also scientific director of the South East England Public Health Observatory from 2000 until 2005.^[1]

His son is the science writer Ben Goldacre.^[2]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} "Prof Michael Goldacre". Debrett's People of Today. http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/g/23990/Michael%20John+GOLDACRE.aspx. Retrieved 25 August 2011. 
2. ^ Ian Fairlie (2009). "Book Reviews: Bad Science, by Ben Goldacre". Medicine, Conflict and Survival 25 (3): 255–257. doi:10.1080/13623690902943552.  edit

External links

• http://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/whos-here/fellows-and-lecturers/fellows/goldacrem
• Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology

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