Professor Nick Mascie-Taylor

Nick Mascie-Taylor is Professor of Human Biology and Health and spent over 40 years in the Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge where he was Head of Department for many years before being elected as the first Head of the newly created Department of Archaeology and Anthropology. On retirement he was re-employed by the University of Cambridge as Director of Research in Global Health in the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, where he helped set up the Bangladesh CAPABLE/BELIEVE cohort study (on non-communicable diseases) as well as running epidemiology and biostatistics training courses for over 80 Bangladeshi public health researchers. Prior to the BELIEVE study he conducted many other projects in Bangladesh including a 10-year project on the relationship between poverty, health and nutrition in Bangladesh (funded by UKAid) which led to over 1 million people graduating out of extreme poverty with concomitant improvements in their health and nutritional status. In the early 1980s he started work in Africa primarily in Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe on infectious diseases and nutrition related projects funded by UKAid and DANIDA and more recently in Nepal and Iran funded by UKAid and The World Bank. He has supervised over 50 MPhil and PhD students and visited Bangladesh 110 times. He has run biostatistics training courses in 17 countries most recently in Lithuania in May 2024.