Nicholas Harvey, MA MB BChir PhD FRCP FAOP FASBMR, trained in medicine at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. He is Professor of Rheumatology and Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Southampton and Director of the University’s MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre, where he leads an MRC programme, using a lifecourse approach to the epidemiology, determinants and prevention of osteoporotic fractures. 

He is Chair of the International Osteoporosis Foundation Committee of Scientific Advisors; a member of the ESCEO Board; a former Trustee of the UK Royal Osteoporosis Society (ROS) and was inaugural Vice-Chair of the ROS Osteoporosis and Bone Research Academy. He is a Fellow of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR). He has won many national/international prizes, most recently the International Osteoporosis Foundation Olof Johnell Science Award. 

He is an investigator on >£50m grant funding, has published >400 articles and is a member of many national/ international committees, including the UK National Osteoporosis Guideline Group Advisory Committee, clinical co-chair of the 2021 ASBMR Annual Meeting, past member of the ASBMR Professional Practice Committee, and as Musculoskeletal Lead for the UK Biobank Imaging Study.