John Danesh is a Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine and the head of the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge.
[4] Danesh was educated in New Zealand and Australia, studying medicine at the University of Otago in and the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
He was a Rhodes scholar (awarded 1992[5]) who earned an MSc from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a DPhil from the University of Oxford, both in epidemiology.
He has conducted large-scale genetic studies of heart disease risk across multinational populations and his work has often been cited in guidelines for clinical practice.
[6] Among his most widely cited research results is the observation that C-reactive protein is only moderately predictive of coronary heart disease.