Rate My Professor Richard Pinder

Richard Pinder is the Director of Undergraduate Public Health Education and Clinical Senior Lecturer in Public Health Medicine at Imperial College School of Medicine within the School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London. He qualified as a doctor at Guy's, King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine in London and completed his Master of Public Health at Imperial College London, followed by higher specialty training in public health medicine. As a consultant public health physician and clinical academic, Pinder leads the Undergraduate Public Health Education team, overseeing population health, epidemiology, global health, and lifestyle medicine courses. He established the UK's first core undergraduate medical course in population health and epidemiology and contributes to the School of Public Health's Global Health BSc programme, aiming to develop future leaders capable of addressing complex public health challenges for equitable health outcomes.

Pinder's research specializations include health systems, health workforce management, epidemiology, lifestyle medicine, behavioural science, quality improvement, and data science. He co-edited the textbook Essential Lifestyle Medicine (Cambridge University Press, 2025), developed over two years in collaboration with international experts to provide foundational knowledge on lifestyle interventions in universal healthcare settings. Notable publications encompass 'Risk factors associated with knife-crime in United Kingdom hospitals' (BMC Public Health, 2020), 'Minority ethnicity patient satisfaction and experience' (BMJ Quality & Safety, 2016), and 'Differential attainment in specialty training recruitment' (BMJ Open, 2023), amassing over 747 citations. His career includes an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship (2010-2013), editorial role as Associate Editor for the Journal of Public Health (Oxford University Press, 2019-2023), and leadership of Coursera specialisations such as Foundations of Public Health Practice. Awards include the Faculty of Public Health President's Medal for Outstanding Service to Public Health (2021), Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (2020), Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (2018), and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2018).