Simon Griffin is Professor of General Practice at the University of Cambridge, Group Leader for the Prevention Group in the Primary Care Unit, the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit and CEDAR (the UKCRC Public Health Centre of Excellence for Diet and Activity Research.
Research Interests
Simon leads a research programme which contributes to efforts aimed at preventing the growing burden of non-communicable disease including obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer, by translating epidemiological knowledge into preventive action, and evaluating the effectiveness of a range of preventive approaches in randomised trials. He published the first diabetes risk score and the first trial of screening for type 2 diabetes. He has completed over 30 trials and authored over 350 publications