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Professor John Wright

John Wright FRCP FFPH is a British epidemiologist, applied researcher and NHS doctor in Bradford. He established the Bradford Institute for Health Research in 2007 and the Wolfson Centre for Applied Health Research in 2019. His interests are in early life health and disease prevention and he set up the Born in Bradford longitudinal birth cohort, and quality and safety of healthcare having set up the Improvement Academy.

He has reported for the BBC for series on Ebola (1,2) in Sierra Leone and the Covid-19 pandemic in the NHS (3) and the long-running Born in Bradford radio series (4). He writes the Coronavirus Doctors Diary for BBC News.

Early Life and education

Wright grew up in Romford where he went to St Edmund Campion comprehensive school. He trained as a doctor at the University of Leeds where he received his Mb ChB in 1987 and trained in hospital medicine gaining his MRCP in 1990. He worked in rural district hospital in eSwatini between 1990-92 and then returned to do public health training in Yorkshire.

Career

He became a consultant in clinical epidemiology at Bradford Royal Infirmary in 1996 and wrote three books (5,6,7) on health needs assessment, global public health and clinical governance. In 2004 he was appointed Director of Research.

He established the Born in Bradford longitudinal birth cohort study in 2006. BiB recruited almost 14,000 mothers and their partners in pregnancy and has followed the lives of 13,500 children born in the city between 2007-2011 (8). He has published papers on the early origins of health and development and associations with environmental exposures, inequalities, genetics, diet and exercise. He leads the MRC funded ActEarly City Collaboratory programme (9)  to develop upstream, whole-system solutions to improve the health and life chances of children living in deprived communities.

He established the Bradford Institute for Health Research in 2007, uniting NHS organisations and the University of Bradford, University of Leeds and University of York to develop a centre for applied health research. In 2019 he was established the Wolfson Centre for Applied Health Research.

He has a lifelong interest in quality and safety improvement and application of statistical approaches to understand variation in care. He set up the Yorkshire and Humber Improvement Academy in 2013 to support the translation of research evidence into clinical practice.

He has long-standing interests in global health having run a health partnership with Good Shepherd Hospital in Swaziland for over 25 years.

Recognition

He was elected a Fellow of Faculty of Public Health in 2001 and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2005. In 2015 he was awarded the West Africa Medal for his work in leading the response to the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone with Doctors of the World. He is Visiting Professor at the University of Bradford, University of Leeds and University of York in the UK and Adelaide, Australia

1.     https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04vdnbq

2.     https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b053749b

3.     https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h5l1/episodes/player

4.     https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001kbd/episodes/player

5.     Health needs assessment in practice. Wright J. BMJ Books, London 1998. ISBN 0-7279 1270-4.

6.     International Public Health: an action guide for developing countries. Walley J, Wright J. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2008. ISBN 0-19 850991 X. (Chinese edition 2011; Indian edition 2010)

7.     Clinical Governance. Wright J and Hill P. Churchill Livingstone 2003 ISBN0-443-07126-8 (Italian edition 2006; Spanish edition 2007; Farsi edition 2013).

8.     Wright J, Small N, Raynor P, Tuffnell D, Bhopal R, Cameron N, Fairley L, Lawlor D, Parslow R, Petherick E, Pickett K, Waiblinger D, West J. Cohort profile: The Born in Bradford multi-ethnic family cohort study. International Journal of Epidemiology 2013;1-14.

9.     Wright J, Hayward A, West J, Pickett K, McEachan R, Mon-Williams M, et al. ActEarly: a City Collaboratory approach to early promotion of good health and wellbeing. Wellcome Open Research. 2019;4:156.