Ken Stein

bmj;386/jul08_7/q1492/FAF1faOur friend and colleague Ken Stein, who has died at the age of 60, was a public health doctor and academic who made major national and international contributions to evidence synthesis, health technology assessment, and helping services use evidence to improve health. From the mid-1990s he was at the cutting edge of making evidence based practice real, for patients, clinicians, and policy makers. This represented a paradigm shift in healthcare and Ken was both an architect and an instrument of that change.Ken, who was professor of public health at the University of Exeter from 2007, was driven by three things: a passion to improve people’s health, intense intellectual curiosity, and an overwhelming loyalty to those he worked with. Like all the best leaders, Ken went out of his way to nurture the careers of others. His ambition, he said, was to be the stupidest person in the room, by recruiting…
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