Bruce Neal

About Professor Bruce Neal

Senior Professorial Fellow

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.

Knowledge, attitudes and practices of Australian healthcare professionals related to potassium-enriched salt: a mixed-methods study

British Journal of Nutrition Date published:

General practitioners’ willingness and perceived barriers and facilitators to ‘prescribing’ potassium-enriched salt in China: an explanatory sequential mixed methods study

BMJ Public Health Date published:

Patient perspectives on cardioprotective medication during breast cancer treatment

Cardio-Oncology Date published:

From evidence to implementation: a stakeholder power-interest and social network analysis of potassium-enriched low-sodium salt governance in China

Frontiers in Nutrition Date published:

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