Rate My Professor Russell Viner

Professor Russell Viner is Professor of Adolescent Health at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. He studied medicine at the University of Queensland and completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge in the History and Philosophy of Science. He moved to London in 1997, where he established the first adolescent medicine unit in the United Kingdom, jointly between Great Ormond Street Hospital and University College London Hospitals. His research focuses on the health of children and young people, including global analyses of social determinants of health, the use of large routine datasets, and intervention studies in areas such as obesity, diabetes, and mental health in schools. He has published over 450 publications, with an H-index of 96, and holds grants exceeding £17 million as chief or principal investigator.

Viner served as President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health from 2018 to 2021 and as Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department for Education from 2023 to 2026. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and has received honours including the Commander of the Order of the British Empire, NIHR Senior Investigator status, and the Founder’s Award from the International Association of Adolescent Health. He remains clinically active, seeing young people with diabetes at UCL Hospitals, and has held roles including vice-chair of the NHS England Transformation Board for Children and Young People and non-executive director at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust.

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