The benefits and harms of ethnic group classification in multicultural societies: public health and social perspectives.

On April 3rd, 2024, Professor Raj Bhopal CBE will be a guest of ECPD for a Distinguished Lecture with the title “The benefits and harms of ethnic group classification in multicultural societies: public health and social perspectives.”

The Lecture will be in English. 

To help us plan, please reserve your spot through this online RSVP form.

About Professor Raj Bhopal CBE, DSc (hon), MD, BSc, MBChB, MPH, FRCP(E), FFPH

Raj Bhopal was born in India, brought up in Glasgow, Scotland from 1955, and studied medicine in Edinburgh University (1971-1978). He is a medically qualified Professor of Public Health in Edinburgh University, holding the John Usher Chair of Public health and the post of honorary consultant in public health with NHS Lothian from 1999 until he retired in May 2018. He is now Emeritus Professor of Public Health at the University of Edinburgh. Earlier, he held posts including Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology at Newcastle University (1991-1998), and prior to that Lecturer in Public Health at Glasgow University (1985-1988).

His books include Concepts of Epidemiology, Migration,Ethnicity, Race and Health, and Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes: Explaining the Phenomenon in South Asians Worldwide (all Oxford University Press).

He has published on many aspects of public health epidemiology, with over 300 research and scholarly papers, especially on ethnic variations in health status including CVD and type 2 diabetes, but most recently on the COVID-19 pandemic. He has served on numerous organisations and committees, been the leader of many research projects, and held leadership roles in the NHS. He was the chairman and leader of both the 19th World Congress of Epidemiology in 2011, and the first World Congress on Migration, Ethnicity, Race and Health in 2018, both in Edinburgh.

Professor Bhopal has enjoyed several honours and prizes, most notably being appointed CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) by her Majesty the Queen in 2001.