Professor Philippe Mayaud
Professor of Infectious Disease
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom
Clinical epidemiologist with a focus on HIV and sexually transmitted infections ((STI), with interest in (re)emerging infections (STI or non STI) . I have worked a total of 13 years overseas in Africa and Latin America/Caribbean.
I have served as member of WHO expert panels on STI since 1993, and Zika in 2016-7.
I am a scientific expert with a number of French (ANRS, INSERM, Institut Pasteur, World AIDS Foundation), other international (US NIH, Canadian CIHR) research agencies, and in the UK (MRC).
I have served on the Scientific Board of CAREC (Caribbean Epidemiology Centre, Trinidad); and Wits Reproductive Health & HIV Research Institute, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
I have been Head of the HIV Epidemiology and Intervention Programme and Theme Leader of HIV and Emerging Infections at the MRC/UVRI/LSHTM Uganda Research Unit based in Entebbe, Uganda from March 2019 to March 2020.
I have been Head of the LSHTM Department of Clinical Research twice in 2012-2016, and 2020-2021 (start of COVID pandemic).
I have been a founding member and Director, and current member of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Sexually Transmitted Infections at LSHTM. I I am a member of several research Centres at LSHTM (MARCH, Vaccine, Humanitarian Conflicts and Crises) and the STI Research Interest Group (STIRIG)
I have held a number of Honorary international positions: 1) Clinical Associate Professor at the School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (2009, renewed 2015); 2) Professor at the School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana (2010-2015); 3) Visiting Professorship (2015-2018) at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo (FMUSP), Brazil, funded by CAPES/BRAZIL under the prestigious 'Ciencias sim Fronteiras' programme.
Affiliations
Centres
Teaching
I have been the Course Director of the MSc Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV, jointly run with the University College of London Medical School (1997-2009). The course attracted 10-15 UK and overseas students each year.
I have developed with Prof Mabey (CRD, LSHTM) the curriculum and I have been the lead module organiser of the LSHTM Module “Control of STI” from 1997 to present (29 years). This module is offered to all LSHTM MSc courses, and has attracted between 15-60 students/year (over 800 students have been trained in the first 20 years) and occasional fee-paying students. This course has served as template for similar short courses in South Africa, China and Brazil, which I have developed and/or lectured on.
I lecture on other LSHTM masters courses: MSc CID (HIV/STI week), MSc TMIH, MSc RSHR and DTMH and the online course MSc SRHPP.
I regularly teach at various institutions in Belgium (Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp), France (University of Bordeaux; Institut Leon Mba, Paris), UK (BASHH, SOAS) and have also taught at universities in Burkina Faso, Kenya, Morocco, Senegal, Sweden, and Uganda.
I have been appointed as reviewer of Masters in Global Health, University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland in 2026
Research
I have over 35 years of experience of research in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) context. My research focuses on all aspects of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), ie in clinical, management, epidemiology, and public health/control; and interactions between STIs and HIV, in particular viral STI 9HPV, HSV-2, HHV-8). I have a particular interest in evaluating clinical, preventative or community-level methods of STI control. After 10 years of research on herpes and HIV (including running several treatment trials), I have shifted my focus on prevention of HPV/cervical cancer among women living with HIV and general population (screening and vaccination).
I have been working in Eastern (Tanzania, Uganda), Western (Burkina Faso, Gambia, Ghana), Central (Central African Republic), Southern (Malawi, South Africa, Zambia) and Northern (Morocco) African countries, both in Anglophone and Francophone countries, as well as in China in the early 2000s and Brazil since the mid 2000s. I spent 6 years (1991-97) working in Mwanza, Tanzania; 1 year (2019-2020) at the MRC Unit in Uganda.
Most of the above research had been conducted through large consortia supported by DFID (UK), EU, EDCTP, ANRS (France).
Since 2015, during a 3-year part-time visiting Professorship at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, I have developed a research interest on (re)emerging viral infections such as Zika, Dengue, Yellow-fever, and recently SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), and obtained funding as LSHTM PI on two large research programmes/capacity building on arbovirus infections, funded by EU and MRC.
I have supervised a total of 15 Research Degree students at the School, including 3 DrPH students and 2 Commonwealth Students -- all as sole or primary supervisor; I have co supervised two PhD students in France and Brazil; and I have been on the Advisory Board of 10 other RD students at the School. I have been a RD examiner at universities in the UK, Autralia, Belgium, France, and the Netherlands.
In 2025, I have joined the LSHTM Research Ethics Commmittee (Observartional A Committee)
Selected Publications
