Fellowship

The RSE Fellowship comprises around 1,800 leading experts in the sciences, arts, business, professions and the third and public sectors, with links to Scotland. This range of expertise within the Fellowship places us in a unique position to provide an informed, interdisciplinary response to issues facing Scotland and internationally.

Our Fellows from academia, business and public service are among the most distinguished in their fields. We engage and connect nationally and internationally to share knowledge and tackle the most pressing challenges of the modern world.

Elected: 2014
Discipline: Biomedical and Cognitive Sciences
Professor George Davey Smith
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Bristol
Professor George Davey Smith is an epidemiologist who has been Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at University of Bristol since 1994. His work initially addressed how early-life deprivation influenced the risk of disease in adulthood, but over the past decade he has concentrated on integrating genomic technologies into population-based epidemiological studies to help improve inference regarding causes of diseases. He is currently Director of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and their Children (ALSPAC) and from 2000-2016 was Editor-in-Chief of The International Journal of Epidemiology.
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