29 Notable alumni of
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London
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The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London is 1655th in the world, 568th in Europe, and 103rd in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 29 notable alumni from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
- Enrolled in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London
- In 1992 graduated with Master of Science in immunology
- Occupations
- malariologistpoliticianmicrobiologist
- Biography
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is an Ethiopian public health official, researcher, diplomat, and the Director-General of the World Health Organization since 2017. He is the first African to become WHO Director-General, receiving an endorsement for the role by the African Union. Tedros played a role in the response to the Ebola virus epidemic, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 2022–2023 mpox outbreak.
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Fernando Simón
- Occupations
- epidemiologist
- Biography
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Fernando Simón Soria is a Spanish epidemiologist serving as Director of the Coordination Centre for Health Alerts and Emergencies of the Ministry of Health. He came to public prominence as spokesman for the special committee on Ebola virus disease in Spain in 2014, and a similar role during the COVID-19 pandemic. Simón tested positive for coronavirus on 30 March 2020.
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James Lovelock
- Occupations
- autobiographerindependent scientistscience fiction writeruniversity teacherenvironmentalist
- Biography
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James Ephraim Lovelock was an English independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the Earth functions as a self-regulating system.
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Pamela Rendi-Wagner
- Occupations
- physicianwomen's rights activistchairman of the Social Democratic Partycivil servantpolitician
- Biography
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Pamela Rendi-Wagner is an Austrian physician and politician who is the current director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, and who previously served as chairwoman of the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) from 2018 to 2023. She was the first woman to lead the SPÖ.
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Anders Tegnell
- Enrolled in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London
- Graduated with Master of Science in epidemiology
- Occupations
- physiciancivil servantepidemiologist
- Biography
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Nils Anders Tegnell is a Swedish civil servant and physician specialising in infectious disease. From 2013 until his resignation in March 2022 he was Sweden's state epidemiologist.
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Vanessa Kerry
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Vanessa Bradford Kerry is an American physician, public health expert, and advocate. She is a founder of the non-profit Seed Global Health, director of the Program in Global Public Policy and Social Change at Harvard Medical School, and serves as the Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health for the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Betta Chimaobim Edu
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Betta Chimaobim Edu is a Nigerian medical doctor turned politician. She served as national women leader of All Progressive Congress. She was Cross River State Commissioner for Health until her resignation in 2022. She was also National Chairman of the Nigeria Health Commissioners Forum.
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Bruce Aylward
- Enrolled in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London
- Graduated with diploma in tropical medicine
- Occupations
- epidemiologistphysician
- Biography
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Bruce Aylward is a Canadian physician and epidemiologist. Since September 2017 he has been Senior Advisor to the Director-General of the World Health Organization. He is part of the implementation of the WHO's COVAX Facility. He has past experience in the areas of polio eradication, Zika virus, and Ebola.
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John Ashton
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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John Ashton CBE is a British doctor and academic. Ashton previously held positions at the University of Southampton, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Liverpool School of Medicine and as Regional Director of Public Health for North-West England for 13 years.
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Stella Nyanzi
- Enrolled in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London
- 2003-2009 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- researcherhuman rights activist
- Biography
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Stella Nyanzi is a Ugandan human rights advocate, poet, medical anthropologist, feminist, queer rights advocate, and scholar of sexuality, family planning, and public health. She was arrested in 2017 for insulting the Ugandan president. In January 2022, she was accepted to live in Germany on a writers-in-exile programme run by PEN Germany, with her three children.
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Kevin Fenton
- Enrolled in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London
- Studied in 1992
- Occupations
- epidemiologist
- Biography
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Kevin Andrew Fenton is a public health physician and infectious disease epidemiologist. He is the London regional director at Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, regional public health director at NHS London and the statutory health advisor to the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. He is the current president of the United Kingdom Faculty of Public Health and holds honorary professorships with the University College London and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is the 2024/25 president of the British Science Association.
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Max Price
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Max Price served as the vice-chancellor and principal of the University of Cape Town in South Africa, succeeding Njabulo Ndebele. He held this position for a decade, from 19 August 2008, until 30 June 2018.
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Gilbert Bukenya
- Occupations
- businesspersonphysicianuniversity teacherpublic health scientistpolitician
- Biography
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Gilbert Balibaseka Bukenya is a Ugandan politician and physician who was the seventh vice president of Uganda from 23 May 2003 until 23 May 2011. He has represented the constituency of Busiro County North in the Ugandan Parliament since 1996. His autobiography, Intricate Corridors to Power, was published in 2008.
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Adel Mahmoud
- Occupations
- university teacherphysician
- Biography
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Adel K. Mahmoud was an Egyptian-born American doctor and expert in infectious diseases. He was credited with helping with the development of the Gardasil HPV vaccine and the rotavirus vaccine while serving as President of Merck Vaccines. Both the HPV and rotavirus vaccines were under development prior to Mahmoud joining Merck Vaccine Division; he assisted in ensuring that they remained a priority for Merck to continue development to commercial launch. After retiring from Merck he became a professor at Princeton University.
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Carissa Etienne
- Enrolled in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London
- Graduated with Master of Medicine in community health
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Carissa Faustina Etienne was a Dominican public health expert. She served as the Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and Regional Director for the Americas of the World Health Organization (WHO) (2018–2023). Up to her death, she was in her second five-year term as PAHO director, having been re-elected by the PAHO member states during the Pan American Sanitary Conference in September 2017. In January 2018, she was named Regional Director for the Americas for WHO by its Executive Board based in Geneva. She was an advocate for universal health coverage.
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Ashwin Vasan
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Ashwin Vasan is an American physician, epidemiologist, and health and human services leader, who is a public health professor and practicing primary care doctor at Columbia University, who most recently served as the 44th commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Vasan was also the president and CEO of Fountain House, a national mental health nonprofit.
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Matshidiso Rebecca Natalie Moeti
- Born in
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South Africa - Enrolled in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London
- Graduated with Master of Public Health in community health
- Occupations
- Community health scholarregional managerphysician
- Biography
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Matshidiso Rebecca Natalie Moeti is a physician, public health specialist and medical administrator from Botswana who has been serving as Regional Director of the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa, headquartered in Brazzaville, the Republic of the Congo, since 2015.
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Sonia Y. Angell
- Biography
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Sonia Yris Angell is an American public health figure. She is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of the Practice of American Health in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Angell also maintains a clinical professorship of medicine in the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 2020, after resigning as director of the California Department of Public Health, Angell was elected a Member of the National Academy of Medicine.
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Müge Çevik
- Born in
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Turkey - Enrolled in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London
- 2009-2010 graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- researcherphysician
- Biography
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Müge Çevik is a physician who is an infectious diseases researcher and science communicator at the University of St Andrews. Her research considers HIV, viral hepatitis, emerging infections and tropical infections in developing countries. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Çevik was an advisor to the Chief Medical Officer of Scotland and the World Health Organization, and is a member of New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group - an expert committee of the UK Department of Health advising Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies.
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Cesar Victora
- Enrolled in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London
- 1980-1983 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teacherepidemiologist
- Biography
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Cesar G. Victora is a Brazilian-born epidemiologist, academic and specialist in child health and nutrition. He is an Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology at the Federal University of Pelotas and holds or has held honorary appointments at the Universities of Harvard, Oxford, and Johns Hopkins, and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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Patricia Kingori
- Born in
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Kenya - Occupations
- researchersociologist
- Biography
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Patricia Kingori is a British Kenyan sociologist who is a professor at the University of Oxford. Her research considers the experiences of frontline health workers around the world. She is particularly interested in misinformation and pseudoscience. In 2015, Kingori was included on the Powerlist.
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Dlawer Ala'Aldeen
- Occupations
- microbiologistphysician
- Biography
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Dlawer Ala'Aldeen, is the Founding President of the Middle East Research Institute, a policy-research institute, based in Arbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq. He is a former Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research in the Kurdistan Regional Government (2009–2012) and former professor of Medicine (Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Disease) at the University of Nottingham in the UK. His current focus is on policy research in the fields of good governance, rule of law, national security, governance reform and promotion of human rights.
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Karina Rando
- Occupations
- anesthesiologistpolitician
- Biography
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Ana Evelyn Karina Rando Huluk is a Uruguayan anesthesiologist and politician of Open Cabildo, serving as Minister of Public Health of Uruguay since March 13, 2023.
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Sarah Cleaveland
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- university teacherveterinary epidemiologistepidemiologistveterinarian
- Biography
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Sarah Cleaveland is a veterinary surgeon and Professor of Comparative Epidemiology at the University of Glasgow.
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Andrew C. Hayward
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 59)
- Enrolled in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London
- 1994-1996 graduated with Master of Science
- Occupations
- microbiologistepidemiologist
- Biography
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Andrew C Hayward is professor of infectious disease epidemiology and inclusion health research at University College London.
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Dossibai Patell
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Dossibai Rustomji Cowasji Patell MBE, MRCP, later known as Dossibai Jehangir Ratenshaw Dadabhoy, was an Indian obstetrician and gynaecologist, who in 1910 became the first woman to become a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS).
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Fredros O Okumu
- Born in
- Kenya
- Occupations
- parasitologistentomologist
- Biography
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Fredros Okumu is a Kenyan parasitologist and entomologist, who currently works as director of science at the Ifakara Health Institute in Tanzania. His primary research interests concern the interactions between humans and mosquitoes.
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William Porter MacArthur
- Occupations
- writerconsultanteditorhistorianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Lieutenant-General Sir William Porter MacArthur KCB DSO OBE FRCP FRCPI was an Irish-born British Army officer and medical doctor. He served as Commandant of the Royal Army Medical College from 1935 to 1938, and Director General Army Medical Services from 1938 to 1941. His specialism as a medical doctor was tropical medicine and he served as president of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from 1959 to 1961.
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Judith Glynn
- Enrolled in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- epidemiologist
- Biography
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Judith Glynn is a Professor of Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She worked on the Karonga Prevention Study on HIV and Tuberculosis in Malawi. She is also a sculptor.
