Doctor Bruce Neal is a Professorial Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health in Australia where he has worked since the Institute was established in 1999. He is Professor of Medicine at UNSW Sydney and Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at Imperial College London in the United Kingdom.
Doctor Neal holds a medical degree and a PhD and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. Over a 30-year research career, he has published more than 700 scientific papers, which have accrued more than 200,000 citations.
His research focuses on the prevention of blood pressure-related disease through both pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions. A major focus of his work has been the generation and translation of evidence on salt substitution though a program of large-scale clinical trials and implementation research.