John Danesh

{{Short description|Public health doctor}}

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John Danesh is a Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine and the head of the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge. He also holds several other leadership roles in scientific organizations, including director of the department's affiliate Strangeways Research Laboratory and founder and director of the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit. He is also an associate faculty member at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and an honorary consultant at the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.{{cite web|title=John Danesh|url=http://www.iph.cam.ac.uk/about-us/key-people/john-danesh/|website=Cambridge Institute of Public Health|accessdate=15 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222085854/http://www.iph.cam.ac.uk/about-us/key-people/john-danesh/|archive-date=22 December 2015|url-status=dead}} He became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2007 and of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2015.{{cite web|title=New Fellows 2015|url=http://www.acmedsci.ac.uk/more/news/new-fellows-2015/|website=The Academy of Medical Sciences|accessdate=15 December 2015|date=11 May 2015}}

Professor Danesh has been the British Heart Foundation Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology since 2012.{{cite web|title=John Danesh|url=https://www.bhf.org.uk/what-we-do/our-research/our-top-professors/professor-john-danesh/|website=British Heart Foundation|accessdate=11 October 2021}} In 2013 he won the Senior Investigator award from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).{{Cite web|title=Danesh, John - Wellcome Sanger Institute|url=https://www.sanger.ac.uk/person/danesh-john/|access-date=2022-02-09|website=www.sanger.ac.uk|language=en-US}}