Russell Viner
Russell Mardon Viner, CBE FMedSci (born 1963) is an Australian-British paediatrician and policy researcher who is Chief Scientific Advisor at the Department for Education and Professor of Adolescent Health at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. He is an expert on child and adolescent health in the UK[1]
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]
Professional life
[edit]He was a member of the UK Government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) 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 to 2021.[3] He remains clinically active, seeing young people with diabetes each week at UCL Hospitals. Viner is vice-chair of the NHS England Transformation Board for Children and Young People and Chair of the Stakeholder Council for the Board. He is a non-executive director (NED) at Great Ormond St. Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust.[4]
Viner was appointed as Chief Scientific Advisor (CSA) to the Department for Education in January 2023,[5] with responsibility for science and evidence use within the department and science advice to Ministers.n.
Academic societies
[edit]He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci)[6] and a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP, 1995), of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (FRCPCH, 1998) and was awarded a fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians (London) in 2000.
Awards and honours
[edit]- Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE), awarded in the 2022 New Year's Honours List.
- James Spence Medal, awarded on 2026[7]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Iris View Profile". iris.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
- ↑ "Iris View Profile". iris.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
- ↑ Akkermans, Rebecca (July 2018). "Russell Viner". Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. 2 (7): 477. doi:10.1016/S2352-4642(18)30174-3. S2CID 52142088.
- ↑ "Trust Board". GOSH Hospital site. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
- ↑ "Professor Russell Viner". GOV.UK. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
- ↑ Burki, Talha (11 October 2022). "New Fellows of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences". Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. 6 (12): 841–842. doi:10.1016/S2352-4642(22)00303-0. PMID 36240837. S2CID 252886375.
- ↑ "Professor Russell Viner CBE". RCPCH. London: Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. Retrieved 29 August 2026.
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- Living people
- 1963 births
- Physicians of University College Hospital
- Pediatricians
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- University of Queensland alumni
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- NIHR Senior Investigators
- Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians
- Fellows of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
- Presidents of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
- Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom)