Born in Bradford Research Presentation- John Wright

Presentation Title:  "Born in Bradford: Can a Research Study Change a City?"

John Wright is the Director of the Bradford Institute for Health Research and a clinical epidemiologist with a background in internal medicine and public health in the UK and  Africa. He has been working in Bradford since 1996 and is Visiting Professor in Clinical Epidemiology at the Universities of York, Leeds and Bradford. He is an applied health services researcher with particular interests in translation of research into practice and is the author of over 200 peer review papers, seven Cochrane reviews and three textbooks. He is the chief investigator of the Born in Bradford cohort study.

Born in Bradford is a prospective pregnancy and birth cohort established to examine how genetic, nutritional, environmental, behavioral and social factors affect health and development during childhood, and subsequently adult life, in a deprived multi-ethnic population.   You can learn more about the Born in Bradford cohort at: http://www.borninbradford.nhs.uk/