Barker, David J. P.

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BARKER, David J. P.

BARKER, David J. P. British, b. 1938. Genres: Medicine/Health. Career: Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Director of the Medical Research Council Environmental Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, and Hon. Consultant Physician, Royal South Hampshire Hospital Research Fellow, Dept. of Social Medicine, 1963-66, and Lecturer, Dept. of Medicine, 1966-69, University of Birmingham; Hon. Lecturer in Epidemiology, Makerere University, Uganda, 1969-72. Publications: Practical Epidemiology, 1973, 4th ed., 1991; (with G. Rose) Epidemiology in Medical Practice, 1976, 5th ed., 1998; (with G. Rose) Epidemiology for the Uninitiated, 1979, 3rd ed., 1993; (ed.) Fetal and Infant Origins of Adult Disease, 1992; Mothers, Babies and Disease in Later Life, 1994, 2nd ed. as Mothers, Babies and Health in Later Life, 1998; (co-ed.) Fetal Programming, 1999; Fetal Origins of Cardiovascular and Lung Disease, 2001; The Best Start in Life, 2003. Address: Manor Farm, East Dean, nr Salisbury SP5 1HB, England. Online address: [email protected]

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