Professor John Lynch

Professor John Lynch
 Position Deputy Dean Research / Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
 Org Unit Public Health
 Email john.lynch@adelaide.edu.au
 Telephone +61 8 8313 6541
 Location Floor/Room 4 ,  Rundle Mall Plaza ,   North Terrace

  • Biography/ Background

     

    One of the world’s “highly cited researchers”

     

    John Lynch is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. He is a Visiting Professor of Epidemiology in the Bristol Medical School:  Population Health Sciences at the University of Bristol in the UK. He spent 20 years working in North America and before returning to Australia in 2009 he held professorial positions at the University of Michigan in the USA, and at McGill University in Canada.

    He is an internationally recognized scholar in epidemiology and public health. In 2005 he was awarded a Canada Research Chair in Population Health. In 2007 his work in social epidemiology and public health was recognized with an Honorary Doctoral Degree in Medical Science from the University of Copenhagen. In 2009 he was awarded a prestigious NHMRC Australia Fellowship. In 2015 he was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. In 2019 he won Research Australia’s Award for Data Innovation.

    He has over 350 academic publications that have attracted over 49,000 citations and a Google H index of 101. From 2014 to 2018 he received Thomson Reuters’/Clarivate “Highly Cited Researcher” status that places him in the top 1% of cited scientists internationally in his field.

    In the last 5 years, he was Chief Investigator A or B on over $10 million in NHMRC competitive research funding. In total over that period, he was a Chief Investigator on successful competitive research grants worth over $22 million. He leads an NHMRC funded Centre for Research Excellence (2015-2020) called "EMPOWER: Health systems, disadvantage and child well-being."

    He currently serves on several international, national and local scientific advisory groups. He was an editor of the highly ranked International Journal of Epidemiology from 2005-16.

    His research interests include
    o child health and development
    o social and health inequality
    o pragmatic RCTs and natural experiments of early life interventions
    o large scale linked data systems to enhance evidence-based public health
    o research that makes a difference in improving policy, practice and service delivery

  • Research Interests

    His research interests include
    o child health and development
    o social and health inequality
    o pragmatic RCTs and natural experiments of early life interventions
    o large scale linked data systems to enhance evidence-based public health
    o research that makes a difference in improving policy, practice and service delivery

  • Publications

    Peer Reviewed Journal Papers

    Lynch has more than 350 publications, with an H Index of 101. His work has been cited about 50,000 times.

     

    Google Scholar link

    https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=r7LFjiAAAAAJ&hl=en

     

     

     

     

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Entry last updated: Friday, 18 Aug 2023

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