Professor Gene Feder
Professor of Primary Health Care, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol
Gene Feder trained at Guy's Hospital medical school, qualifying in 1982. This followed a BSc in Biology and Philosophy from the University of Sussex. He trained as a GP and was a principal in Hackney, east London for 21 years until he moved to Bristol in 2008. He has chaired three NICE clinical guidelines and sat on the 2010 Department of Health task-force on responding to violence against women and children (chairing the domestic violence subgroup). He is currently chairing the WHO intimate partner violence guideline development group and the NICE domestic violence programme development group. In 2009 he was short-listed for the BMJ group awards for outstanding achievement in evidence based health care.
Gene's research career started with an MD on the health and health care of Traveller Gypsies. This was followed by studies on the development and implementation of clinical guidelines, the management of chronic respiratory and cardiovascular conditions in primary care and the health impact of domestic violence. His current research programmes focus on stable angina and health care responses to domestic violence. His main methodological expertise is in randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews. He collaborates with epidemiologists and social scientists on cohort and qualitative studies respectively.
He is a tutor on the first year Whole Person Care course, supervises students on the intercalated International Health BSc, and lectures fourth year students on the management of angina and of domestic violence and lectures on research methodology short courses. One day a week Gene works as a salaried GP at the Helios Medical Centre in North Bristol.
Professor Martin Mckee
CBE MD DSc MSc FRCP FRCPE FRCPI FFPH FMedSci
Professor of European Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Martin McKee qualified in medicine in Belfast, Northern Ireland, with subsequent training in internal medicine and public health. He is Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where he co-directs of the European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition (ECOHOST), a WHO Collaborating Centre that comprises the largest team of researchers working on health and health policy in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He is also research director of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, a unique partnership of universities, national and regional governments, and international agencies.
Martin has published over 550 scientific papers, 38 books, and 103 book chapters. He served as an editor of the European Journal of Public Health for 15 years (six as editor in chief) and a member of 16 editorial boards. He chairs the WHO European Region Advisory Committee on Health Research and the Global Health Advisory Committee of George Soros’ Open Society Foundations. He has been chair of the UK Society for Social Medicine and is a trustee of the UK Public Health Association. He sits on a number of advisory boards in Europe and North America, in both the public and private sectors. He is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London, Edinburgh and Ireland and the UK Faculty of Public Health.
His contributions to European health policy have been recognised by, among others, election to the UK Academy of Medical Sciences, the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences, and the US Institute of Medicine, by the award of honorary doctorates from Hungary, The Netherlands, and Sweden, visiting professorships at universities in Europe and Asia (including Taipei Medical University), and the 2003 Andrija Stampar medal for contributions to European public health. In 2005 he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by HM Queen Elizabeth II. He has an active following on Twitter as @martinmckee.