Andrew C Hayward | |
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| Born | April 1966 (age 58) Birmingham |
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| Alma mater | St Thomas's Hospital Medical School |
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| Discipline | Epidemiology and Public Health |
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Andrew C Hayward (born April 1966) is professor of infectious disease epidemiology and inclusion health research at University College London. [1] [2] [3]
Hayward was one of the founders of Flu Watch in 2006,designed to understand transmission of influenza in the general community. As well as continuing surveillance it has provided data for modelling flu epidemiology. Previously,models were based data from the USA between 1948 and 1981 that was collected in very different social,travel and community settings. Participant households in England were invited to join after being selected at random from the lists of volunteer general practitioners. [4]
His research includes developing health intervention methods for people experiencing homelessness,drug users and people in prisons. [5]
He was a member of the UK SAGE sub-committee NERVTAG - New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group - that played a key role in advising the UK government during the COVID-19 pandemic. [6]
In 2017,he was awarded the UCL Student Choice Award for Outstanding Post Graduate Research Supervision. [7] In 2019,he was appointed Senior Investigator at the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). [8]
He has a H-index of 57 on Google scholar. [9]
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Carsten Flohr was born in Hannover,Germany,on 2 October 1968. He attended the Matthias-Claudius Gymnasium Gehrden,where he won the prestigious Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes prize,awarded to the top 1% of German secondary school graduates. Following a gap year in Taipei and Shanghai,Carsten Flohr co-enrolled in Medicine and Chinese Studies at Göttingen University,Germany,where he completed his pre-clinical studies with a distinction in 1993 and also later graduated with an MA in Chinese Studies (2000). Carsten Flohr then moved to Trinity College at Cambridge University to undertake a Master of Philosophy in the History of Medicine (1995),before moving to Balliol College at Oxford University to complete his clinical medical studies (1995–1998). He then trained in general medicine,paediatrics and dermatology in Oxford,Newcastle and Nottingham between 1998 and 2003,before being awarded the John Radcliffe Senior Research Fellowship from University College Oxford. This took him to study the links between helminth parasites and allergic disease at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam (2004–2007),showing that gut parasites protect against allergic disease,one important reason why allergies are now so common in affluent country settings. While in Vietnam,Flohr also undertook a Masters of Science in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene &Tropical Medicine.
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