Helen Weiss

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Helen Weiss
OccupationEpidemiologist
Academic background
Alma mater University of Oxford
Thesis Cancer epidemiology: with special reference to the long-term effects of explosure to ionizing radiation (1994)
Doctoral advisor Sarah Darby
Institutions London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Helen Anne Weiss FMedSci is a British epidemiologist who specialises in HIV research, low-income health, and mental health. After getting her PhD at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in 1994, she started working at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where she became Professor of Epidemiology. She was elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2020.

Biography

Helen Anne Weiss, a cancer epidemiology student at the University of Oxford, received her PhD there at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund; her 1994 doctoral dissertation, Cancer epidemiology: with special reference to the long-term effects of explosure to ionizing radiation, was supervised by Sarah Darby. [1] [2] After working abroad at the National Cancer Institute in the United States during her postdoctoral career, she started working at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1997; [3] there, she was Reader in Epidemiology and International Health as late as 2019, [4] before becoming Professor of Epidemiology sometime before 2020. [5]

As an academic, Weiss specialises in HIV research, low-income health, and mental health. [5] Her research on decreased HIV risk for heterosexual circumcised men inspired guideline reforms by the World Health Organization. [5] She has also worked for the Medical Research Council's International Statistics & Epidemiology Group as a statistical epidemiologist and as their director. [3] [1] In 2019, she served on the World Health Organization Technical Advisory Group on Innovations in Male Circumcision as a member. [4]

Weiss was elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2020. [5]

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References

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  2. "Cancer Epidemiology : With Special Reference to the Long-Term Effects of Explosure to Ionizing Radiation". Bodleian Library. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
  3. 1 2 "Professor Helen Weiss". Centre for Global Mental Health. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
  4. 1 2 "Annex 2. List of participants" (PDF). WHO Technical Advisory Group on Innovations in Male Circumcision. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
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