Peter Smith CBE BSc DSc HonMFPHM FMedSci

Professor of Tropical Epidemiology

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• Tropical Epidemiology Group
• LSHTM
• Keppel Street
• London
• WC1E 7HT
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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. Presently, in addition to his School appointment, he is a Governor of the Wellcome Trust. He serves on the Board of Management of the Medicines for Malaria Venture. 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 Tropical Epidemiology Unit and headed the Department of Epidemiology and Population Sciences from 1990-96. He chirs and serves on a number of advisory committees of the World Health Organisation.

Affiliation

• Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Research

Research interests include large-scale intervention studies against tropical diseases, including vaccine trials against HIV, malaria and leishmaniasis. Peter has been involved in research on the link between Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in humans. He also serves on a number of international committees relating to intervention studies against some of the major tropical diseases.

• Selected publications

• Measurement of malaria vaccine efficacy in phase III trials: report of a WHO consultation.

  Moorthy, V.; Reed, Z.; Smith, P.G.; WHO Study Group on Measures of Malaria Vaccine Efficacy, .;

  Vaccine, 2007; 25(28):5115-23

• The 1957 MRC report on leukaemia and aplastic anaemia in patients irradiated for ankylosing spondylitis.

  Smith, P.G.;

  J Radiol Prot, 2007; 27(4B):B3-B14

• A guide for diagnostic evaluations

  Peeling, R.W.; Smith, P.G.; Bossuyt, P.M.M.

  Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2006; 4(9 Suppl):S2-6

• MMR vaccination and pervasive developmental disorders: a case-control study.

  Smeeth, L.; Cook, C.; Fombonne, E.; Heavey, L.; Rodrigues, L.C.; Smith, P.G.; Hall, A.J.;

  Lancet, 2004; 364(9438):963-9

• The epidemics of bovine spongiform encephalopathy and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: current status and future prospects

  Smith, P. G.

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2003; 81(2):123-30

• Effects of misclassification of causes of death on the power of a trial to assess the efficacy of a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in The Gambia

  Jaffar, S.; Leach, A.; Smith, P. G.; Cutts, F.; Greenwood, B.

  International Journal of Epidemiology, 2003; 32(3):430-436

• Evaluation of adverse effects of vaccines: the case-control approach

  Smeeth, L.; Rodrigues, L. C.; Hall, A. J.; Fombonne, E.; Smith, P. G.

  Vaccine, 2002; 20(19-20):2611-7

• The ethics of research related to healthcare in developing countries

  Smith, P. G.

  (London) 2002

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