Professor Ian Russell

Ian Russell has been Founding Professor of Public Health at University of Wales Bangor since October 2002. He is a career public health researcher who specialises in the design, conduct and analysis of pragmatic randomised trials to evaluate complex interventions, notably in primary care, in gastro-enterology and in musculo-skeletal medicine. He was an early protagonist of both patient-assessed measures of health outcome within trials and systematic reviews to synthesise the findings of trials.

Education
Cambridge (graduating in Mathematics)
Birmingham (Statistics)
Essex (Health Services Research)

Academic appointments
Newcastle (where he researched mainly into general practice),
North Carolina (mainly into ambulatory care),
Aberdeen (where he was Director of the Scottish Health Services Research Unit, and researched mainly into acute services)
Wales (College of Medicine -while Director of the Welsh Office of Research and Development for Health and Social Care)
York (where he was Professor of Health Sciences and Director of the York Trials Unit).

Other appointments
Chair of the NHS Commissioning Board for Health Technology Assessment
Deputy Chair of the Health Services Research Board of the Medical Research Council
Co-Chair of the Curriculum Development Group of the Hull York Medical School
Director of the Institute of Medical and Social Care Research at University of Wales Bangor.