Rate My Professor Russell Viner

Professor Russell Viner is Professor of Adolescent Health at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. He studied medicine at the University of Queensland and completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge in the History and Philosophy of Science. He moved to London in 1997, where he established the first adolescent medicine unit in the United Kingdom, jointly between Great Ormond Street Hospital and University College London Hospitals. His research focuses on the health of children and young people, including global analyses of social determinants of health, the use of large routine datasets, and intervention studies in areas such as obesity, diabetes, and mental health in schools. He has published over 450 publications, with an H-index of 96, and holds grants exceeding £17 million as chief or principal investigator.