Carl Heneghan

Carl James Heneghan (born January 1968) is a British general practitioner physician, a clinical epidemiologist and a Fellow of Kellogg College. He is the director of the University of Oxford's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine and former Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine.

Heneghan is a Professor of Evidence-based medicine at the University of Oxford, NHS Urgent Care General Practitioner, and co-director of the Global Centre for Healthcare and Urbanisation. Heneghan's work includes investigating the evidence for approval of drugs and devices, assessing health claims, and researching common presenting conditions in the community. He has expertise in medical device regulations, diagnosis, screening and avoidable harms: including analyses of antiviral medication Tamiflu, acute respiratory infections and the transmission of SARs-CoV-2.

Professor Heneghan is the Director of Programs in Evidence-Based Health Care at the University of Oxford, running since 2000 as the largest part time program in the Medical Sciences Division. Heneghan writes regularly in the media, including at the Spectator and, along with Tom Jefferson, created the substack Trust the Evidence. Provided by Wikipedia