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Professor John Powell

Contact information


john.powell@phc.ox.ac.uk


+44 (0)1865 617768
Fax +44 (0)1865 289412


Kate Markham
kate.markham@phc.ox.ac.uk


ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1456-4857

John Powell

MA MB BChir MSc PhD PGCertMedEd MRCPsych FFPH FFCI

Professor of Digital Health Care

  • Professor of Digital Health Care
  • NIHR Senior Investigator

Background and current work

John Powell is an academic public health physician studying healthcare in the digital age and how and why people use information and communication technologies in relation to health, and how services can harness digital tools to deliver benefit. He combines an academic career as Professor and NIHR Senior Investigator at the University of Oxford with a role as a senior clinician at NICE, where he advises the NHS on the safe adoption of innovations in surgery, and on the appraisal of digital health technologies. He is an expert adviser to national agencies including PHE and MHRA. He has worked as a comedy writer for BBC Radio and as a television drama advisor where his credits include Downton Abbey and the movie Ammonite. He was formerly Professor of Public Health at the University of Warwick where he helped establish the Institute for Digital Healthcare. He was the Clinical Director of NHS Choices, the NHS website. He has degrees in Social and Political Sciences and in Clinical Medicine from the University of Cambridge. He has an H-index of 52.

I currently have 7 doctoral students and unfortunately I am not able at present to take on any more.

Interview with Andrew Marr on Radio 4 Start The Week: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08tvj71

Summary CV and publications list

Summary CV and publications list

Key publications

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