About Us

Dr Luis Nacul – Consultant in Public Health Medicine      

As a consultant in Public Health Medicine Luis Nacul identifies important yet unaddressed issues in national and international public health services for Foundation projects. He leads work that brings together multidisciplinary teams from a wide range of academic organisations, interest groups and health providers. He also participates in our teaching programme towards the Masters in Public Health at the University of Cambridge.

Luis studied medicine and did his medical residency at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He holds a number of degrees in public and community health and epidemiology, and was awarded a PhD in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Prior to joining the Foundation in 2009, Luis worked as a clinical lecturer and held a number of posts with the UK Health Protection Agency and Harrow Primary Care Trust. He has wide experience in epidemiology, teaching and health protection; and is a member of the Faculty of Public Health and fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Luis is currently involved in developing a tool kit for assessing health needs in relation to genetic disorders and congenital anomalies in low and middle income countries; and in a scoping study looking at how knowledge of genetic host-susceptibility to infectious diseases may be used for targeting public health initiatives. He also plans to engage in a systematic review of genetic determinants of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME), aiming to guide the development and evaluation of biomarkers for the diagnosis and stratification of CFS/ME cases.

Selected recent publications:

• Osoba, T, Pheby D, Gray S, Nacul L. The development of an epidemiological definition for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic Fatigue Syndrome
  Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (2008) 14(4):61-84
• Nacul LC, Soljac M, Meade T. Model for estimating the population prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: cross sectional data from the Health Survey for England Population Health Metrics (2007) 5:8
• Fabian C, Olinto MTA, Dias-da-Costa JS, Bairros F, Nacul LC. Anemia prevalence and associated factors among adult women in Sao Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Cad Saude Publica (2007) May;23(5):1199-205

Please visit PHG Foundation’s resources page for a list of our publications and other work by members of our staff.