Roy M. Anderson
| Sir Roy Anderson | |
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| Born | Roy Malcolm Anderson 12 April 1947 Hertfordshire |
| Residence | London |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | epidemiology |
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University of Oxford Imperial College London Ministry of Defence |
| Alma mater | Imperial College London |
| Thesis | A quantitative ecological study of the helminth parasites of the bream Abramis brama' (1971) |
| Doctoral advisor | George Murdie |
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Sir Roy Malcolm Anderson, FRSFMedSci (born 12 April 1947) is a leading British expert on epidemiology. He has mathematically modelled the spread of diseases such as new variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and AIDS. From October 2004 to September 2007 Anderson was the Ministry of Defence's, Chief Scientific Advisor in the UK. He also currently chairs the science advisory board of WHO's Neglected Tropical Diseases programme, is a member of the Bill and Melinda Gates Grand Challenges In Global Health advisory board, and chairs the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) advisory board funded by the Gates Foundation. He is a non-executive director of GlaxoSmithKline.
Anderson was born the son of James Anderson and Betty Watson-Weatherborn. He attended Duncombe School, Bengeo and Richard Hale School. He was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in zoology at Imperial College London followed by a PhD in parasitology in 1971 with thesis titled A quantitative ecological study of the helminth parasites of the bream Abramis brama (L). Most of Anderson's early career was at Imperial College, becoming Professor of Parasite Ecology in 1982. He was head of the Department of Biology from 1984 to 1993. At Imperial College, he served as Director of the Wellcome Centre for Parasite Infections from 1989 to 1993.
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