Bruce Neal

About Professor Bruce Neal

Executive Director, The George Institute for Global Health, Australia

Professor Neal is a UK-trained physician who has 25 years’ experience in clinical, epidemiological, and public health research with a focus on heart disease, stroke and diabetes. 

He has a longstanding interest in high blood pressure and diabetes and the potential for both clinical interventions and changes in the food supply to deliver health gains.  His work has been characterised by its focus on collaboration, quantitation, translation and impact.  

He holds professorial appointments at UNSW Sydney, Imperial College London, and an honorary appointment at the University of Sydney.  He has published some 450 scientific papers and since 2016 has been identified by Thomson Reuters as one of ‘The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds’ - an acknowledgement bestowed on just a few thousand researchers across all disciplines worldwide.  

He has deep expertise in the conduct of large-scale clinical trials addressing cardiovascular disease but has also done a significant body of work addressing food policy issues related to sugars, fats, portion size and food labelling.

Sodium content of packaged foods and beverages in Nigeria: a cross-sectional comparative study with WHO global sodium benchmarks, Kenya, and South Africa

Journal of Nutritional Science Date published:

Lower-sodium, Potassium-enriched Salt Substitution: An Opportunity for Improving Blood Pressure in Jamaica?

Public Health in Practice Date published:

Blood pressure lowering in isolated diastolic hypertension and cardiovascular risk: an individual patient data meta-analysis

European Heart Journal Date published:

Cardiac Impact of Dapagliflozin in Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease: Rationale and Design of the Renal Lifecycle Trial Cardiac Imaging Sub-studies

Clinical Kidney Journal Date published:

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