Peter Smith (epidemiologist)
Peter George Smith (born 3 May 1942)
Background
Peter Smith graduated in
Other Appointments
- Governor of the Wellcome Trust[1]
- Member of the Partnership Board of the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership.[1]
- Deputy Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.[1]
- He serves on a number of advisory committees of the World Health Organisation and of the UK Government.[1]
- He serves as Chair of the Programme Board for Global Health and Vaccination Research (GLOBVAC), Research Council of Norway for the period 2011–17.[2]
Research
Research interests include large-scale intervention studies against tropical diseases, including vaccine trials. Peter has also been involved in recent years in research on the link between bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in humans. From 1996 to 2004 he served on the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee, which advises the UK government on BSE and related issues. He was the acting chair of the committee from 1999–2001 and was the chair from August 2001 to July 2004. He also serves on a number of international committees relating to intervention studies against some of the major tropical diseases.[1]
Honours and awards
Peter Smith received professional recognition with the presentation of:
- Donald Reid Medal for Epidemiology in 2003.
He was honoured with:
- CBE
References
- ^ a b c d e f Information at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Archived 2011-09-26 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Programme Board for Global Health and Vaccination Research Visited 05.04.2016.
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