Professor Ken Stein Biography

Portrait of KenProfessor Ken Stein, Chair, Editorial Board

Ken Stein is Senior Clinical Lecturer in Public Health at the University of Exeter, a post which he has held since 2003.

He graduated in medicine from Bristol University and trained as a general practitioner in Australia and Hampshire before specialising in public health in Southampton, where he became acting Deputy Director, NCCHTA. In 1999 he moved to Exeter where he took up the position of Consultant in Public Health Medicine at North and East Devon Health Authority, then Director of Public Health for Mid Devon Primary Care Trust, combined with a part-time role at the University of Exeter, before becoming a full time academic public health physician at the Peninsula Medical School in Exeter and Director of the Peninsula Technology Assessment Group (PenTAG).

His research interests include the use of quality of life estimates in health technology assessment, synthesis of qualitative research, the use of modelling to support planning and management in the NHS and the evaluation of case finding for hepatitis C in primary care settings.


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