He moved to the Biomathematics Department at the University of Oxford as an IBMresearch fellow working on stochastic models of infectious disease spread under Professor Maurice Bartlett FRS. He was appointed to a Lectureship in Parasitology at King's College London in 1974 before moving back to Imperial as a lecturer in Ecology and then becoming Professor of Parasite Ecology in 1982. He was head of the Department of Biology from 1984 to 1993.[7] At Imperial College, he also served as Director of the Wellcome Centre for Parasite Infections from 1989 to 1993.[9]
In 1993 Anderson moved to the University of Oxford where he was head of the Zoology department and held the Linacre Chair of Zoology at Merton College, Oxford until 2000. During this time he founded and served as Director of the Wellcome Centre for the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease - the first such centre in the UK entirely focused on research into the epidemiology and control of infectious diseases - until he resigned "following two damning reports on the way that the centre has been managed", however the director of the Wellcome Trust noted that there was "“no question of the scientific credibility of Roy Anderson or the centre. It is doing first class work and our priority is to maintain that.”.[27] His former doctoral students include Angela Mclean[5] and Sunetra Gupta.[4]
Chief Scientific Advisor of the Ministry of Defenceedit
Anderson was appointed the 14th Rector of Imperial College on 1 July 2008. In his time as Rector he focused on strengthening the emphasis on teaching as well as world renown research at Imperial, and on securing a new site in the White City, West London, to facilitate the expansion of Imperial's molecular and biomedical research, halls of residence, support for innovation and entrepreneurship and teaching facilities. He also negotiated the first overseas campus venture for Imperial in partnership with Nanyang Technological University in Singapore which led to the creation of the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine in Singapore designed to train doctors to meet Singapore Healthcare needs. He tendered his resignation in November 2009 stating his wish to return to his primary interest in scientific research on global health issues.
Director of the London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Researchedit
He established the London Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases (LCNTDR) in 2013. The LCNTDR was launched with the aim of providing focused operational and research support for NTD control. The LCNTDR member institutions house leading NTD experts with a wide range of specialties, making the centre a valuable resource for cross-sectoral research and collaboration. It is a joint initiative between the Royal Veterinary College, Imperial College London, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and the Natural History Museum, London.
Membership of Councils, Boards and Committees (National and International)edit
He is currently[when?] a Vice-President of Fauna Flora International, Chairman of Oriole Global Health Limited, Director of the London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research, Trustee of the Banga Trust and a Trustee of the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences.
He was a non-executive director of GlaxoSmithKline 2008–2018, a member of the International Advisory Board of Hakluyt and Company Ltd. 2008–2019, and Chairman of the International Advisory Board of PTTGC Company Thailand, 2014–2018.[citation needed]
Other memberships:
Member of the International Advisory Board of the Malaysian Government Biotechnology Initiative (Biotechnology Corporation), 2010-2017
Chairman Pearson Independent Advisory Board on Making Education Work, 2012-2018[citation needed]
Member of the Singapore National Research Foundation Fellowship Advisory Board, 2012-2015
Trustee of the Natural History Museum, London, 2008–2016. Member of The Royal Society Science Policy Advisory Group, 2008-2014[citation needed]
Member of the International Advisory Board of the Thailand National Science and Technology Development Agency, 2010-2017
Council member of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), 2005-2007[citation needed]
Member of the Department of Health Science Advisory Board for Epidemic Outbreaks, 2001-2011
Member of the Government Chief Scientist's Science Advisory Board for pandemic influenza, 2003-2010
Chairman of the Science Advisory Council (SAC) of the UK Government's Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), 2003-2005[citation needed]
Member of the Science Advisory Committee of the UK Health Protection Agency, 2004-2006
Member, US National Academies of Science Committee 'Advances in Technology and the Prevention of their Application to Next Generation Biowarfare Agents', 2003–06[citation needed]
Member World Health Organization (WHO) Advisory Group on SARS, Geneva, 2003[citation needed]
Member, Health Protections Agency (HPA) Advisory Group on SARS, 2003[citation needed]
Member of the Advisory Board, Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York USA, 2003-2007[citation needed]
Chairman, Canadian Innovation Fund Committee for Infectious Disease Research, 2002-2003[citation needed]
Member of Science Advisory Group, Civil Contingencies Committee, 2001-2002[citation needed]
Member of Foot and Mouth Scientific Advisory Group, 2001[citation needed]
Member of the Advisory Board of the Bernard Nocht Institute of Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, 1999-2002
Member of the International Advisory Panel for the Joint Infrastructure Fund run by Office of Science and Technology and the Wellcome Trust, 1999-2000
Chairman, UNAIDS reference group on the Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS, 1999–2004.
Member of the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC), 1997-2001
Member of the UNAIDS Vaccine Advisory Committee (VAC) of the Joint United National Programme HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), 1996-1999
Member of Joint Committee on Vaccination & Immunisation, Department of Health, 1996-2000
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Isaac Newton Institute, University of Cambridge, 1995
Council Member, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1993-2010
Trustee, Tropical Health and Education Trust, 1991-2008
Selected publicationsedit
Anderson, R. M.; May, R. M. (1978). "Regulation and stability of host-parasite population interactions: I. Regulatory processes". J. Anim. Ecol. 47 (1): 219–247. doi:10.2307/3933. JSTOR 3933.
Anderson, R. M.; May, R. M. (August 1979). "Population biology of infectious diseases: Part I." Nature. 280 (5721): 361–7. Bibcode:1979Natur.280..361A. doi:10.1038/280361a0. PMID 460412. S2CID 2270842.
May, R. M.; Anderson, R. M. (August 1979). "Population biology of infectious diseases: Part II". Nature. 280 (5722): 455–61. Bibcode:1979Natur.280..455M. doi:10.1038/280455a0. PMID 460424. S2CID 4352269.
Anderson, R. M.; Gordon, D. M. (October 1982). "Processes influencing the distribution of parasite numbers within host populations with special emphasis on parasite-induced host mortalities". Parasitology. 85 (2): 373–98. doi:10.1017/S0031182000055347. PMID 7145478. S2CID 19196511.
Anderson, R. M.; May, R. M. (October 1982). "Coevolution of hosts and parasites". Parasitology. 85 (Part 2) (2): 411–26. doi:10.1017/S0031182000055360. PMID 6755367. S2CID 26794986.
Anderson, R. M.; May, R. M. (November 1985). "Vaccination and Herd Immunity to Infectious Diseases". Nature. 318 (6044): 323–9. Bibcode:1985Natur.318..323A. doi:10.1038/318323a0. PMID 3906406. S2CID 4363751.
Nowak, M. A.; Anderson, R. M.; McLean, A. R.; Wolfs, T. F.; Goudsmit, J.; May, RM (November 1991). "Antigenic diversity thresholds and the development of AIDS". Science. 254 (5034): 963–9. Bibcode:1991Sci...254..963N. doi:10.1126/science.1683006. PMID 1683006.
Anderson, R. M.; Donnelly, C. A.; Ferguson, N. M.; Woolhouse, M. E.; Watt, C. J.L; et al. (August 1996). "Transmission dynamics and epidemiology of BSE in British cattle". Nature. 382 (6594): 779–88. Bibcode:1996Natur.382..779A. doi:10.1038/382779a0. PMID 8752271. S2CID 8205375.
Fraser, C.; Riley, S.; Anderson, R. M.; Ferguson, N. M. (April 2004). "Factors that make an infectious disease outbreak controllable". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101 (16): 6146–51. Bibcode:2004PNAS..101.6146F. doi:10.1073/pnas.0307506101. PMC395937. PMID 15071187.
^ abcdeAnon (2012). "Anderson, Prof. Sir Roy (Malcolm)". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u249736. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^"George Murdie Obituary" (PDF). Imperial College London Reporter (197). 31 October 2008. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
^ abMcLean, Angela Ruth (1987). Mathematical models of the epidemiology of measles in developing countries (PhD thesis). Imperial College London. hdl:10044/1/47259. OCLC 1001138698. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.717180. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
^Curriculum Vitae(PDF). Imperial College London. Retrieved 20 March 2009.
^ abSleeman, Elizabeth (2003). The International Who's Who 2004. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-85743-217-6.
^ abAnon (1986). "Sir Roy Anderson FMedSci FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
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^Telegraph — Honours for those who 'work and serve at the sharp end'
^Anderson, Roy Malcolm (1971). A quantitative ecological study of the helminth parasites of the bream (Abramis brama (L.)). imperial.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of London. hdl:10044/1/16195. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.363435.
^Anderson, Roy M. (1974). "Population Dynamics of the Cestode Caryophyllaeus laticeps (Pallas, 1781) in the Bream (Abramis brama L.)". Journal of Animal Ecology. 43 (2): 305–321. doi:10.2307/3367. JSTOR 3367.
^Fishwick, Samuel (2020). "'I've had emails calling me evil'... Meet the Covid scientists at war".
^Loder, Natasha (2000). "Top UK epidemiologist suspended after complaints". Nature. 403 (353). doi:10.1038/35000388.
^Ezard, John (2000). "Oxford scientist suspended". The Guardian.
^"Imperial vs Oxford: Covid-19 rivalry may have roots in a sex smear two decades ago". 2020.
^Foggo, Daniel; Rushton, Katherine; Barnes, Sophie (2020). "Science clash: Imperial vs Oxford, and the sex smear that created rival Covid-19 studies –Rivalry began two decades ago when leading lights of Imperial College and Oxford University worked together".