Alun Evans#
| Membership Number: | 6148 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 - present Professor Emeritus
- 2009 - 2014 Visiting Senior Research Fellow
- 2014 - present Senior Research Professor
- 1990 - 2009 Personal Chair in Epidemiology
- 1988 - 2006 Head, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, QUB
- 1982 - 2002 WHO MONICA Project Principal Investigator
- 1990 - 2002 Member (elected): WHO MONICA Project Steering Committee
- April 1994 - Sept 1997 Chairman (elected): WHO MONICA Project Steering Committee
- Coordinator of the WHO MONICA Project.Final Analysis (BIOMED 2, 2nd Call)
- Coordinator of the WHO MONICA Project: Cohort Component (BIOMED 2, 3rd Call)
- 1990 - 2004 Vice-Chairman ECTIM Study Group, Paris
Fields of Scholarship
- Cardiovascular epidemiology
- Social history of medicine and public health
- Genetic archaeology
- Cardiovascular genetics
- Studies of antioxidant vitamins and alcohol intake
Honours and Awards
- 1995 The Noel Hickey Medal, 1995
- 2005 The Robert Campbell Medal, 2005
- 2016 - 2021 Secretary to the Medical History Section of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland
- 2020 - present President of the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society (In its Bicentennial Year)
