Professor Sir Muir Gray is an honorary clinical researcher at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. Professor Sir Muir is an internationally renowned authority on healthcare systems who has held some of the most senior positions in screening, public health, information management and value in healthcare, and has advised governments of several countries outside the UK including Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Spain and Germany. Sir Muir’s work focuses on providing training to healthcare professionals on value-based healthcare and he is the Founding Director of Oxford Value and Stewardship Programme.
In 1994 Sir Muir Gray started an Evidence-Based medicine movement in the UK. He invited David Sackett, a physician, teacher, and pioneer of modern day Evidence-Based medicine, to Oxford to found the first of several centres around the country. By 1995 the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) was established in Oxford.
Sir Muir has worked for the National Health Service in England since 1972, occupying a variety of senior positions during that time, including serving as the Director of Research and Development for Anglia and Oxford Regional Health Authority, and first establishing and then being the Director of the UK National Screening Committee. He founded the National Library for Health, and was the Director of Clinical Knowledge, Process, and Safety for the NHS (England) National Programme for IT, serving as the Director of the National Knowledge Service. He was the first person to hold the post of Chief Knowledge Officer of the NHS (England), also serving as the co-Director of the Department of Health’s Quality Innovation Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) Right Care Programme. Together with Sir Iain Chalmers, Muir was instrumental in establishing the Cochrane Collaboration.
Sir Muir is an internationally renowned authority on healthcare systems and has advised governments of several countries outside the UK including Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Spain and Germany and regularly delivers plenary sessions at international events, the most recent being the 2014 World Health Summit in Berlin, the Big Data in Pharma conference in London in 2015 and the 2015 Transplantation meeting at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
Sir Muir is also a Professor in the Nuffield Department of Surgery at the University of Oxford. He received the CBE in 2000 and was knighted in 2005 for services to the National Health Service.
Publications
Professor Sir Muir Gray has over 170 research publications and published many books about Evidence-Based healthcare, public health, value-based healthcare, population health, and optimal ageing. Selected book publications are available here.
Oxford–Egypt Evidence-Based Healthcare Alliance
The Oxford–Egypt EBHC Alliance focuses on advancing Evidence-Based healthcare education, research, and practice in Egypt, through a joint transformative initiative between leading academic, research and healthcare institutions in Egypt and the Oxford Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (CEBM) in the UK.
