Norman Noah MB BS FRCP FFPH

Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Norman Noah qualified in medicine in 1963 at St Thomas's Hospital, London, worked in general hospital medicine and obtained his specialist examinations as a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1968. He then saw the light and moved into epidemiology, specifically the epidemiology of infectious disease in 1971. He trained at the Epidemiological Research Laboratory at the PHLS in Colindale and was appointed as a consultant to the PHLS Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre [CDSC - now the HPA Centres for Infection (CFI)] at its inception in 1977. He worked in outbreak investigation, surveillance and vaccines, and was then offered a chair at Kings College School of Medicine and Dentistry, London in 1989. In 1998 he moved to a joint post at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and CDSC. He is now Emeritus Professor at LSHTM . He currently edits a journal, Epidemiology and Infection, continues with teaching, helps organise a study unit and another DL course and collaborates on some research projects.

He has had extensive practical experience in outbreak investigation, surveillance and vaccines, especially in the fields of respiratory infections, gastroenteritis, hepatitis, and meningitis. He also has considerable experience in both postgraduate and undergraduate teaching. He has held various consultancies here and abroad. He was Secretary of the International Epidemiological Association for one three-year term. He has produced hygiene guidelines for tattooists, acupuncturists, and other non-medical skin piercing professions, which have generally been accepted as a standard both here and abroad. He has recently completed a textbook for the Open University. This was published by McGraw Hill in July 2006.

Affiliation

Teaching

Norman organises a Study Unit, "Communicable Disease Control in Developed and Middle Income Countries" joliuntly with the Centre for Infection at Colindale [HPA]

He also organises a Distance Learning module on Communicable Disease Control.

Research

Norman is working with others at LSHTM on the global surveillance of meningococcal disease, and with members of the HPA on the hazards of body piercing.

Disciplines

  • Epidemiology

Disease and Health Conditions

  • Infectious disease
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