# Michael Goldacre

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'''Michael John Goldacre''' (born 3 January 1944 in [Melbourne, Australia](/source/Melbourne%2C_Australia)) is an Australian-born British [medical doctor](/source/medical_doctor) and academic. He has been a [fellow](/source/Fellow_(college)) of [Magdalen College](/source/Magdalen_College%2C_Oxford) since 1985 and was awarded a [Title of Distinction](/source/Title_of_Distinction) as Professor of [Public Health](/source/Public_health) at the [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford) in 2002.<ref name=debretts/> He is a [Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians](/source/Fellow_of_the_Royal_College_of_Physicians),a Fellow of the [Faculty of Public Health](/source/Faculty_of_Public_Health), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine<ref name=debretts/>

==Early life==
Michael Goldacre was born on 3 January 1944 in [Melbourne](/source/Melbourne), Australia.<ref name=debretts>{{cite web|url=http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/g/23990/Michael%20John+GOLDACRE.aspx|title= Prof Michael Goldacre| work=[Debrett's People of Today](/source/Debrett's_People_of_Today)|accessdate=25 August 2011}}</ref> His great-great-grandfather was journalist and politician [Sir Henry Parkes](/source/Sir_Henry_Parkes), father of the [Australian Federation](/source/Australian_Federation).{{citation needed|date=January 2016}} He was educated at [Bec School](/source/Bec_School), a [grammar school](/source/grammar_school) in London, England. He studied medicine at [Magdalen College, Oxford](/source/Magdalen_College%2C_Oxford), graduating with a [Bachelor of Arts](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) (BA) degree, with first class honours, and at [University College Hospital](/source/University_College_Hospital), London, graduating with [Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery](/source/Bachelor_of_Medicine%2C_Bachelor_of_Surgery) (BM BCh) degrees.<ref name=debretts />

==Career==
He has been at the [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford) since 1974, when he was appointed clinical lecturer in [social and community medicine](/source/social_medicine).<ref name=debretts/> He was the Director of the Unit of [Health-Care](/source/health_care) [Epidemiology](/source/Epidemiology) and the Oxford Record Linkage Study from 1986 to 2015. He was also scientific director of the [South East England](/source/South_East_England) [Public Health Observatory](/source/Public_Health_Observatory) from 2000 until 2005, and director of the UK Medical Careers Research Group from 1993 to 2015.<ref name=debretts/>

==Personal life==
In 1973 he married Australian singer Susan M Traynor, who performed in the band [Fox](/source/Fox_(band)) and as [Noosha Fox](/source/Noosha_Fox), in Wandsworth, London.<ref>General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office. Name:	Susan M Traynor
Date of Registration:	Oct-Nov-Dec 1973
Registration district:	Wandsworth
Inferred County:	London
Spouse:	Michael J Goldacre
Volume Number:	5e
Page Number:	975</ref> One of their sons is the [science writer](/source/science_writer) [Ben Goldacre](/source/Ben_Goldacre).<ref>{{Cite journal | title = Book Reviews: Bad Science, by Ben Goldacre| author = Ian Fairlie| journal = Medicine, Conflict and Survival | volume = 25 | issue = 3 | pages = 255–257| year = 2009 | doi = 10.1080/13623690902943552| s2cid = 220378364}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* https://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/member-of-staff/michael-goldacre/
* https://wayback.archive-it.org/org-467/20200608093220/https://www.uhce.ox.ac.uk/uhce/
* https://www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/research/medical-careers-research-group

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