Professor Liam Smeeth CBE FMedSci
Director
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Elected Fellow 2016
Clinical epidemiology, electronic health records, non-communicable diseases in low and middle income countries
Liam Smeeth is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is an internationally recognised research leader, undertaking ground-breaking research on drug effects, disease aetiology and the evaluation of interventions. He has made a number of important discoveries and his work on the MMR vaccine and autism was of central importance in demonstrating safety and led to a recovery in vaccine uptake. He has provided new evidence on the evolution of the non-communicable disease epidemic in low income countries, co-leading a new MRC funded international partnership across 10 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.