Peter G. Smith

Peter Smith is Professor of Tropical Epidemiology. He headed the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases until 2002, a position he occupied from the formation of the department in 1997. He graduated in mathematics from City University, London and joined the Medical Research Council's Statistical Research Unit in 1965. Since then he has worked on various aspects of epidemiological and statistical research in: MRC Clinical and Population Cytogenetics Research Unit, Edinburgh (1967-69); Makerere University Medical School, Uganda (1970-71); International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France and Uganda (1971-72); Imperial Cancer Research Fund Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Oxford (1972-79); Harvard School of Public Health, Boston (1987); and Tropical Diseases Research Programme of WHO (1987). He joined LSHTM in 1979 to head the MRC Tropical Epidemiology Unit and headed the Department of Epidemiology and Population Sciences from 1990-96. He served as a Governor of the Wellcome Trust from 2005 to 2014. He currently chairs and serves on a number of advisory committees of the World Health Organisation.