Alan Lopez

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Alan D. Lopez
AC FAHMS
Known forEpidemiology of tobacco
AwardsJohn Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award (2018)
Scientific career
FieldsPublic health; epidemiology
Institutions

Alan Donald Lopez (born 1951) is an Australian global and public health scholar and epidemiologist who focuses on the measurement of population health and the global descriptive epidemiologist of tobacco.

He was a Melbourne Laureate Professor and the Rowden-White Chair of Global Health and Burden of Disease Measurement at The University of Melbourne.[1] He is also the Director of the Global Burden of Disease Group in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health and a member of the Disease Control Priorities Project.[2][3]

  1. ^ Lopez, Alan D. (2014). "Video Q&A: Tobacco-related mortality: Past, present and future. An interview with Alan Lopez". BMC Medicine. 12: 162. doi:10.1186/s12916-014-0162-x. PMC 4203965. S2CID 31384292.
  2. ^ "Alan Lopez". Globalhealth.washington.edu. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
  3. ^ "WHO - Executive Board Chair: Professor Alan Lopez, University of Queensland". Who.int. Archived from the original on 17 October 2014. Retrieved 13 October 2014.