Emeritus Professor, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Jimmy first came to LSHTM in 1990 as a clinical lecturer. working on vector borne parasitic diseases and running as co-course organiser the Public Health in Developing Countries MSc. He has been back at LSHTM since 2015 where he was chair of the Ethics Committee until 2022. He helped to establish the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team in 2017 and was the Deputy Director for Research until 2019. He was also the focal point at LSHTM for WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, a member of the scientific advisory committee for the WHO Research and Development Blueprint for Action to Prevent Epidemics and a member of the Global Coordination Mechanism. He retired in 2021, and is now an emeritus professor and member of the LSHTM ethics committee. he us also a member of the HHCC and CEPR centres at LSHTM.
He worked in The Gambia in 1983-5 for Save The Children in Basse.
Since then he has worked for the MRC on onchocerciasis in Bo, Sierra Leone (1986-90), and on HIV in Uganda (1996-2004).
He worked for the Wellcome Trust from 2004-2015 where he was responsible for development of the scientific portfolio for research in low and middle income countries and the development of capacity strengthening programmes.
Jimmy first came to LSHTM in 1990 as a clinical lecturer. working on vector borne parasitic diseases and running as co-course organiser the Public Health in Developing Countries MSc. He has been back at LSHTM since 2015 where he was chair of the Ethics Committee until 2022. He helped to establish the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team in 2017 and was the Deputy Director for Research until 2019. He was also the focal point at LSHTM for WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, a member of the scientific advisory committee for the WHO Research and Development Blueprint for Action to Prevent Epidemics and a member of the Global Coordination Mechanism. He retired in 2021, and is now an emeritus professor and member of the LSHTM ethics committee. he us also a member of the HHCC and CEPR centres at LSHTM.
He worked in The Gambia in 1983-5 for Save The Children in Basse.
Since then he has worked for the MRC on onchocerciasis in Bo, Sierra Leone (1986-90), and on HIV in Uganda (1996-2004).
He worked for the Wellcome Trust from 2004-2015 where he was responsible for development of the scientific portfolio for research in low and middle income countries and the development of capacity strengthening programmes.
Affiliations
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
Centres
Antimicrobial Resistance Centre
Research
International public health
Outbreaks and humanitarian crises
Field epidemiology
Ethics
Capacity building in low resource settings
HIV in low resource settings
Onchocerciasis and other vector borne parasitic diseases
Outbreaks and humanitarian crises
Field epidemiology
Ethics
Capacity building in low resource settings
HIV in low resource settings
Onchocerciasis and other vector borne parasitic diseases
Selected Publications
2019
Clinical Medicine
Public Health Infrastructure
2018
Global health 4th edition
2016
BMJ global health
2015
Health policy and planning
2014
Science (New York, N.Y.)
2011
The Lancet infectious diseases
2008
Lancet (London, England)
2005
Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass)
2004
The Journal of infectious diseases
2003
Lancet