Abstract
I’ve always found epidemiology fascinating. Its basic appeal to me comes from an aptitude with numbers, which I inherited from my father, a maths teacher. I first became hooked while a medical student at Barts in the 1980s. We had an inspiring lecturer, Professor Nicholas Wald, now Sir Nicholas Wald. He invented the Triple Test, used to detect the risk of Down’s syndrome in pregnancy.1 After I completed house jobs in 1989, I worked back at Barts as a senior house officer in epidemiology, which I loved. Coming from the hierarchical system in hospitals, I found myself able to touch the boundaries of human knowledge within a few months. I then did further senior house officer posts in oncology and gynaecology. In 1992 I joined the public health training scheme as a lecturer in public health at King’s College, London. After completing training, I …
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