Specialist Advisor - Hearing & Population Health

Professor Adrian Davis was the Director of Population Health Science at Public Health England. He advised the Chief Scientific Officer at NHS England on NHS Audiology Services. He was responsible for the strategy of burden of disease programme for England and advised the Global Burden of Disease programme on hearing and related health issues. He is a member of the scientific council for Global Burden of Disease Programme. 
 
He was the first Director of the Newborn Hearing and Infant Physical Examination Screening Programme (NIPE) where he had overall responsibility for all aspects of the Programmes. Adrian has been involved in the transformation and evaluation of NHS services across a variety of settings.  He has a major interest in innovation and how the Public Health and NHS healthcare workforce can better use knowledge, information and technologies to transform and improve health, service quality and patient experience. Adrian has also been the Department of Health lead advisor on Physiological Diagnostics and Audiology. He recently received a Department of Health lifetime achievement award for his scientific contribution to healthcare in the NHS and has published 250+ articles, chapters and books about his research and associated service development. 
 
Adrian was awarded an OBE by the Queen in 2007 for his services to healthcare. Adrian was an honorary professor in Hearing and Communication at The Ear Institute at University College London (UCL) and previously worked as an epidemiologist for the UK Medical Research Council for 25 years and as Professor of Hearing and Communication at Manchester University for six years. He is now owner director of AD CAVE Solutions Limited which is a consultancy and research company based in London.