Professor Alan Lopez is Professor of Medical Statistics and
Population Health and Head of the School of Population Health at
the University of Queensland. Before joining the university in
January 2003, he worked at the World Health Organization (WHO) in
Geneva, Switzerland, for 22 years, including as Chief
Epidemiologist in WHO’s Tobacco Control Program
(1992–95), Manager of WHO’s Program on Substance Abuse
(1996–98), Director of the Epidemiology and Burden of Disease
Unit (1999–2001) and Senior Science Advisor to the
Director-General (2002). He chairs the Health and Medical Research
Council of Queensland and is an honorary fellow of the Australasian
Faculty of Public Health Medicine.
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