Matthias Egger is professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Bern in Switzerland, as well as professor of clinical epidemiology at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom.
[1] Egger completed his clinical training at the University of Bern and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
[1] From 2017 to 2024, Matthias Egger was president of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
[2][3] In 1997, Egger published a paper describing a method for detecting bias in meta-analyses by analyzing funnel plots.
"[7] Egger has also published research on a wide variety of other medical topics, such as the demographics of people who choose assisted suicide,[8] the association between exposure to aircraft noise and heart attacks,[9] and the effectiveness of pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines.