Crispin Jenkinson is the deputy director of the Health Services Research Unit, University of Oxford, and a fellow of Green College, Oxford. He graduated from Bedford College, University of London, before going to Oxford where he gained an MSc in psychology and then undertook research on the measurement of health outcomes for a DPhil. He was appointed to a research fellowship at Nuffield College, Oxford, before moving to the Health Services Research Unit. He has published extensively in the field of health status measurement and has edited a book in this field entitled Measuring Health and Medical Outcomes.