Roy M. Anderson
Sir Roy Anderson | |
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Born | Roy Malcolm Anderson 12 April 1947[6] Hertfordshire,[7] England, UK |
Nationality | British |
Education | Richard Hale School |
Alma mater | Imperial College London (BSc, PhD) |
Known for | Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control |
Spouse |
Janet Meyrick (m. 2014)Biomathematics[1] |
Institutions | Imperial College London King's College London University of Oxford Ministry of Defence[2] |
Thesis | A quantitative ecological study of the helminth parasites of the bream Abramis brama (1971) |
Doctoral advisor | George Murdie[3][4] |
Doctoral students | Sunetra Gupta[4] Angela Mclean[5] |
Website | www |
Sir Roy Malcolm Anderson
Education and early life
Anderson was born the son of James Anderson and Betty Watson-Weatherburn.[2] 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.[14][15]
Controversies
Anderson resigned from the University of Oxford after admitting that he had falsely alleged that a colleague, Sunetra Gupta, had won a position by having an affair with her head of department.[16][17][18] [19][20] [21] He also resigned from the Wellcome Trust.[22] [23] Gupta demanded a public apology [24] which the male scientist later gave.[25] He then went to Imperial College London[26]
Career and research
He moved to the Biomathematics Department at the University of Oxford as an
In 1993 Anderson moved to the
Chief Scientific Advisor of the Ministry of Defence
He was
Rector of Imperial College
Anderson was appointed the 14th
Director of the London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research
He established the London Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases (LCNTDR) in 2013. The LCNTDR was launched with the aim of providing focused operational and research support for NTD control. The LCNTDR member institutions house leading NTD experts with a wide range of specialties, making the centre a valuable resource for cross-sectoral research and collaboration. It is a joint initiative between the
Membership of Councils, Boards and Committees (National and International)
He has sat on numerous government and international agency committees advising on public health and disease control including the
He is currently[when?] a Vice-President of Fauna Flora International, Chairman of Oriole Global Health Limited, Director of the London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research, Trustee of the Banga Trust and a Trustee of the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences.
He was a
Other memberships:
- Member of the International Advisory Board of the Malaysian Government Biotechnology Initiative (Biotechnology Corporation), 2010-2017
- Chairman Pearson Independent Advisory Board on Making Education Work, 2012-2018[citation needed]
- Member of the Singapore National Research Foundation Fellowship Advisory Board, 2012-2015
- Trustee of the Natural History Museum, London, 2008–2016. Member of The Royal Society Science Policy Advisory Group, 2008-2014[citation needed]
- Member of the International Advisory Board of the Thailand National Science and Technology Development Agency, 2010-2017
- Chairman, Advisory Board, Gates Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI), Imperial College, 2001-2018
- Member of the advisory panel of The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), 2012-2015
- Member of the International Advisory board of ATHENA, (National AIDS Patient Database Charity), Amsterdam, Holland, 2002-2017[citation needed]
- Member of the Singapore National Research Foundation International Advisory Board, 2009-2012[citation needed]
- Chairman of the review board of the National Vaccine research programme in the Netherlands, 2011
- Chairman of the review board of the National Public Health services research in the Netherlands (RIVM), 2010
- Council Member Royal College of Art, 2008-2011[citation needed]
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College, 2007-2010
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Mathematics Institute, Imperial College London, 2007-2010
- Governor of the Institute for Government London, 2007-2011
- Chairman of the World Health Organization Science and Technology Advisory Board on Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2007-2011[citation needed]
- Member Scientific Advisory Board, Bill and Melinda Gates Initiative on Grand Challenges in Global Health, Gates Foundation, 2005-2011
- Chairman of the Defence Research and Development Board, Ministry of Defence UK, 2007-2008[citation needed]
- Chairman of the Major Investments Approval Board (IAB), Ministry of Defence, UK, 2004-2008
- Member of the Defence Council of the United Kingdom, 2004-2007[citation needed]
- Council member of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), 2004-2007[citation needed]
- Council member of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), 2005-2007[citation needed]
- Member of the Department of Health Science Advisory Board for Epidemic Outbreaks, 2001-2011
- Member of the Government Chief Scientist's Science Advisory Board for pandemic influenza, 2003-2010
- Chairman of the Science Advisory Council (SAC) of the UK Government's Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), 2003-2005[citation needed]
- Member of the Science Advisory Committee of the UK Health Protection Agency, 2004-2006
- Member, US National Academies of Science Committee 'Advances in Technology and the Prevention of their Application to Next Generation Biowarfare Agents', 2003–06[citation needed]
- Member World Health Organization (WHO) Advisory Group on SARS, Geneva, 2003[citation needed]
- Member, Health Protections Agency (HPA) Advisory Group on SARS, 2003[citation needed]
- Member of the Advisory Board, Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York USA, 2003-2007[citation needed]
- Chairman, Canadian Innovation Fund Committee for Infectious Disease Research, 2002-2003[citation needed]
- Member of Science Advisory Group, Civil Contingencies Committee, 2001-2002[citation needed]
- Member of Foot and Mouth Scientific Advisory Group, 2001[citation needed]
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Bernard Nocht Institute of Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, 1999-2002
- Member of the International Advisory Panel for the Joint Infrastructure Fund run by Office of Science and Technology and the Wellcome Trust, 1999-2000
- Chairman, UNAIDS reference group on the Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS, 1999–2004.
- Member of the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC), 1997-2001
- Member of the UNAIDS Vaccine Advisory Committee (VAC) of the Joint United National Programme HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), 1996-1999
- Member of Joint Committee on Vaccination & Immunisation, Department of Health, 1996-2000
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Isaac Newton Institute, University of Cambridge, 1995
- Council Member, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1993-2010
- The Wellcome Trust Trustee 1991, Governor, 1992-2000
- Council Member, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, 1992-1995
- Trustee, Tropical Health and Education Trust, 1991-2008
Selected publications
- Anderson, R. M.; JSTOR 3933.
- Anderson, R. M.; S2CID 2270842.
- S2CID 4352269.
- Anderson, R. M.; JSTOR 2395437.
- Anderson, R. M.; S2CID 19196511.
- Anderson, R. M.; S2CID 26794986.
- S2CID 24069783.
- Anderson, R. M.; S2CID 4363751.
- S2CID 2872033.
- PMID 1683006.
- Anderson, R. M.; ISBN 978-0-19-854599-6.
- Anderson, R. M.; S2CID 8205375.
- Fraser, C.; Riley, S.; Anderson, R. M.; Ferguson, N. M. (April 2004). "Factors that make an infectious disease outbreak controllable". PMID 15071187.
Honours and awards
Anderson was elected a
- Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE)
- Foreign Member, French Academy of Sciences[citation needed]
- Foreign Member, United States of America National Academy of Medicine
- Honorary Fellow, Royal Statistical Society
- Honorary Fellow, Royal Agricultural Society[citation needed]
- Honorary Fellow, Institute of Actuaries
- Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Pathologists[citation needed]
- Honorary Member, British Society for Parasitologists
- Honorary Fellow, Linacre College, Oxford[when?]
- Ernst Chain Prize, Imperial College, 2005[citation needed]
- Weldon Memorial Prize 1989
- Croonian Lecture 1994[citation needed]
- Distinguished Statistical Ecologist Award, American Society of Ecology 1998
- Huxley Memorial Medal, Imperial College, 1981
- Scientific Medal, Zoological Society of London, 1982
- C.A. Wright Memorial Medal, British Society for Parasitology, 1986[citation needed]
- David Starr Jordan Prize and Medal, Universities of Stanford, Cornell and Indiana, 1987
- Chalmers Memorial Medal, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1988
- John Hull Grundy Lecture Medal 1990
- Frink Medal for British Zoologists, The Zoological Society of London, 1993[citation needed]
- Joseph Smadel Medal, Infectious Disease Society of America, 1994
- Storer Lecture Medal, University of California, Davis, 1994
- Croonian Prize, Royal Society, 1994
- Leiden Lecture Medal, Institute for Tropical Medicine, Rotterdam, 1995[citation needed]
- Thomas Francis Memorial Lecture Medal, University of Michigan, 1995
- Honorary DSc from the Universities of East Anglia, Aberdeen and Stirling[citation needed]
Personal life
Anderson married Janet Meyrick in April 2014 and has three step-children.[2]
He enjoys walking, travel to remote destinations, natural history, conservation and wildlife photography.[2]
References
- ^ a b Roy M. Anderson publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u249736. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ "George Murdie Obituary" (PDF). Imperial College London Reporter (197). 31 October 2008. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
- ^ a b c Roy M. Anderson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ EThOS uk.bl.ethos.717180. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
- ^ Curriculum Vitae (PDF). Imperial College London. Retrieved 20 March 2009.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-85743-217-6.
- ^ a b Anon (1986). "Sir Roy Anderson FMedSci FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
"All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
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- ^ www
.imperial .ac .uk /people /roy .anderson - ^ Freeview Video 'The Epidemic of Mad Cow Disease (BSE) in the UK, Roy Anderson — a Royal Institution Discourse by the Vega Science Trust
- ^ EPSRC biography
- ^ Telegraph — Honours for those who 'work and serve at the sharp end'
- EThOS uk.bl.ethos.363435.
- JSTOR 3367.
- ^ Fishwick, Samuel (2020). "'I've had emails calling me evil'... Meet the Covid scientists at war".
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- doi:10.1038/35000388.
- ^ Ezard, John (2000). "Oxford scientist suspended". The Guardian.
- ^ "Imperial vs Oxford: Covid-19 rivalry may have roots in a sex smear two decades ago". 2020.
- ^ Foggo, Daniel; Rushton, Katherine; Barnes, Sophie (2020). "Science clash: Imperial vs Oxford, and the sex smear that created rival Covid-19 studies –Rivalry began two decades ago when leading lights of Imperial College and Oxford University worked together".
- ^ "Charity trustee resigns in probe". Oxford Mail.
- doi:10.1038/35000724.
- ^ "Wronged zoologist demands public apology". Times Higher Education. 2000.
- ^ "Anderson apologises". Times Higher Education. 2000.
- ^ "The Londoner: History behind Imperial and Oxford scientists rivalry". 2020.
- doi:10.1038/35008235.
- ^ Prof. Anderson's Biography at Imperial College, as of 2 July 2008.