Ronald Gray (U.K.), M.B., Ch.B., M.P.H.

(United Kingdom)
Consultant Clinical Epidemiologist
National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU)
Institute for Health Sciences
University of Oxford

Ronald Gray

Harkness Project Title: Improving Policy and Practice in Early Childhood Intervention Projects

Mentor: Marie McCormick, M.D., Sc.D.

Placement: Harvard School of Public Health

Biography at time of Harkness Fellowship: Ronald Gray, a 2002-03 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice, was formerly a specialist registrar in public health medicine, a consultant psychiatrist, and Honorary Research Fellow in Public Health at the University of Glasgow. His research interests include child public health policy, mental health policy, and the evaluation of early childhood intervention programs. He has a background in clinical psychiatry and health service management. In the past, he has held clinical, managerial, and honorary academic appointments. Most recently, he has been working with the Scottish Executive Health Department on child health policy. On his return to the United Kingdom, he will take up a new position as a Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford.

Career Activity Since Fellowship

  • Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, 2007
  • Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Epidemiology and Consultant Clinical Epidemiologist, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, 2003
Current Position: Consultant Clinical Epidemiologist, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Oxford University. (Updated August 2010)

E-Mail: ron.gray@npeu.ox.ac.uk

Harkness-Related Publications

Gray R, Francis E. "The Implications of US Experiences With Early Childhood Interventions For the UK Sure Start Programme," Child Care Health Dev. 2007; 33(6):655–63.

Gray R, McCormick MC (2005). "Early Childhood Intervention Programs in the US: Recent Advances and Future Recommendations," Journal of Primary Prevention, 26(3):259 * 275.

Petrou S, Gray R (2005). "Methodological challenges posed by economic evaluations of early chldhood intervention programmes," Appl Health Econ Health Policy, 4(3):175–81.

Gray RF, Indurkhya A, and McCormick M, "Prevalence, Stability, and Predictors of Clinically Significant Behavior Problems in Low Birth Weight Children at 3, 5, and 8 years of age," Pediatrics 2004; 114(3):736⁷743.