David Nunan, PhD

Dr. David Nunan, PhD is a Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford. There, he is the Director of the Postgraduate Certificate in 'Teaching Evidence-Based Health Care' and the lead tutor for the internationally-renowned 'Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine' course.

He is a principal investigator with research interests in prevention and treatment of lifestyle-related conditions, improving the understanding and use of research evidence, and meta-epidemiology (research on research). David has experience in a breadth of methodologies including diagnostic studies, statistical analysis, qualitative research and clinical trials.

1. The three fundamental epistemological pillars of evidence-based medicine
2. Evidence is necessary but not sufficient for effective decision making
3. “The Covid-19 pandemic has undoubtedly been the paradigm shift to end all others.”
4. A lack of transparency in the decision-making process is a fundamental error
5. Why evidence-informed health care (EIHC) is better phrasing that EBM
6. Using principles of EBM in fields like nutrition

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• Is it time for Evidence-Based Medicine 2.0?
• Editorial in BMJ Evidence-based Medicine: Education in evidence-based health care: never a greater need
• Paul Glasziou: Six proposals for evidence based medicine’s future
• The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
• Twitter: @dnunan79
• Related podcast episodes:
  • #343: Understanding Causality in Nutrition Science
  • #354: Problems with the Meta-Analysis in Nutrition
  • #386: Deirdre Tobias, ScD – Study Design, Diet Collection Methods and Nutrition Epidemiology