John Lynch

Professor John Lynch serves as Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health and Deputy Dean Research at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. He is also a Visiting Professor of Epidemiology in the Population Health Sciences at the University of Bristol. With over 20 years of experience in North America prior to returning to Australia in 2009, he held professorial positions at the University of Michigan and McGill University.

His research focuses on health and development, social and health inequality, child maltreatment, pragmatic randomized controlled trials of early life interventions, and large-scale linked data systems to enhance evidence-based public health. His work aims to produce epidemiological research that directly improves policy, practice, and service delivery.

Professor Lynch has received numerous prestigious awards including a Canada Research Chair in Population Health (2005), an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Copenhagen (2007), and an NHMRC Australia Fellowship (2009). In 2019, he won Research Australia's Award for Data Innovation for developing the South Australian Better Evidence Better Outcomes Linked Data platform (SA BEBOLD).

• Canada Research Chair in Population Health (2005)
• Honorary Doctorate in Medical Science from University of Copenhagen (2007)
• NHMRC Australia Fellowship (2009)
• Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (2015)
• Research Australia's Award for Data Innovation (2019)

Professor Lynch has supervised numerous Masters and PhD students and leads an NHMRC funded Centre for Research Excellence called "EMPOWER: Health systems, disadvantage and child well-being." He previously served as editor of the International Journal of Epidemiology for over a decade and currently serves on several international, national, and local scientific advisory groups.

His BEBOLD platform contains 29 whole-population birth cohorts starting in 1991 with data spanning perinatal, hospital, education, child protection, housing, mental health, drug and alcohol, youth justice, corrections, and social welfare systems. He has over 350 publications with more than 52,000 citations and a Google H index of 106, earning him "Highly Cited Researcher" status from 2014 to 2018.