Professor Rod Taylor

Rod Taylor, MSc, PhD is Professor of Population Health Research, University of Glasgow.  He is an Honorary Professor of Health Services Research University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK Adjunct Professor at National Institute of Public Health in Copenhagen. His former academic appointments include the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Universities of Birmingham and Glasgow and he was first Director of Technology Appraisals at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

He has published over 450 peer review articles the field of health services research and health technology assessment and H-index of 79. Rod’s main research interests include development and evaluation of secondary prevention and rehabilitation strategies for heart disease, clinical trial design methodology, use of surrogate outcomes in clinical trials and reimbursement health care policy, and comparative effectiveness research for evaluation of medical devices. He is currently co-Chief Investigator for the following ongoing NIHR and MRC funded studies: REACH-HFpEF trial, SCOT:REACH-HF study, and development of CONSORT and SPIRIT extensions for surrogate endpoints, and is the Director for the Cardiac Rehabilitation Cochrane Review Centre.

His postgraduate qualifications include PhD Clinical Physiology (Glasgow), MSc in Medical Statistics (London) and Postgrad. Dip. Health Economics (Aberdeen).