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Abstract
Raj Bhopal graduated from the University of Edinburgh, UK, in physiology (1975), medicine (1978), and as a doctor of medicine (1991). After house-jobs and general practice he trained in public health medicine in Glasgow, UK. After working as a lecturer at Glasgow and a senior lecturer at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, he became professor and head of the department of epidemiology and public health at Newcastle in 1991. He returned to Edinburgh University as Alexander Bruce and John Usher Professor of Public Health in 1999 and was appointed head of the department of community health sciences in 2000.