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Roy Anderson, FRS, FMEDSCI
Professor of Epidemiology, Imperial College, London, UK
Roy Anderson is currently on secondment to the U.K. Ministry of Defence as Chief Scientific Adviser, as well as being Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, University of London. His previous positions include the Linacre Professorship and Head of Zoology, University of Oxford (1993-1998), Professor of Parasite Epidemiology and Head of Biology, Imperial College (1984-1993) and Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, University of Oxford (1995-2000).
Roy Anderson is a Fellow of the Royal Society, The Academy of Medical Sciences, and a Foreign Associate Member of the Institute of Medicine of the US National Academy of Sciences.
He has published over 450 scientific papers on the epidemiology, population biology, evolution and control of a wide variety of infectious disease agents, including HIV, BSE, Foot and Mouth Virus, vCJD, SARS, dengue virus, parasitic helminths and protozoa, and respiratory tract viral and bacterial infections.
His principal research interests are epidemiology, population biology, evolutionary biology, biomathematics, demography and parasitology. He also has a keen interest in science policy and the public understanding of science.