Dr Chris Bain MBBS, MPH [Harvard], MS [Harvard]

Chris is a reader in Epidemiology within the Division of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, School of Population Health, University of Queensland. Chris has extensive epidemiological research experience and over thirty years experience in longitudinal prospective cohort studies. He spent four years working with the founding researchers of the United States Nurses' Health Study which commenced from Harvard School of Public Health in the 1970s with an initial cohort of 122,000 nurses and is ongoing today. This study has contributed to major advances in the scientific knowledge of cardiovascular and cancer outcomes. His recent achievements in the field of longitudinal study methods include major contributions to grants and subsequent research (NHMRC grant for an RCT to improve primary health care for intellectually handicapped adults; $2,000,000 Population Health Capacity grant in longitudinal study methods; $4,500,000 NHMRC & Wellcome Trust funding (2 grants over 10 years) for a National Thai Cohort Study); and an invitation as the Leverhulme Visiting Professor to University of Bristol to contribute to their suite of prospective studies. Chris has also been a visiting Fellow to University of Cambridge and an Honorary Senior Principal Research Fellow at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research.