# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-barker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:01:21.590Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-barker"
name: "David Barker"
slug: "david-barker"
description: "David James Purslove Barker was an English physician and epidemiologist and originator of the Barker Hypothesis that foetal and early infant conditions have a permanent conditioning effect on the body's metabolism and chronic conditions later in life."
tagline: "English physician and epidemiologist (1938-2013)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1938-06-29"
deathDate: "2013-08-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.62
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.541721333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E8%A1%9B%C2%B7%E5%B7%B4%E5%85%8B"
    title: "大衛·巴克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%8A"
    title: "ديفيد باركي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%89"
    title: "ديفيد باركى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._P._Barker"
    title: "David J. P. Barker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Barker_(epidemiologist)"
    title: "David Barker (epidemiologist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Barker_(epidemi%C3%B3logo)"
    title: "David Barker (epidemiólogo)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Barker_(m%C3%A9decin)"
    title: "David Barker (médecin)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15710330"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump