Andy Haines

Professor Sir Andy Haines is a British pathologist, Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Biography

Haines qualified in Medicine from King's College London in 1969 with honours in pathology, surgery and pharmacology and therapeutics, and received an MD in Epidemiology in the University of London in 1985. He trained in general (family) practice with Julian Tudor Hart in Glyncorrwg, Wales. He was a consultant in epidemiology in the Medical Research Council Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit between 1980-7 and Professor of Primary Health Care at University College London from 1987-2000. He worked part time as an inner London general practitioner between 1980-2000. Between 1993-6 he was alsos Director of Research and Development at the NHS Executive North Thames (formerly North Thames Regional Health Authority), At various times in his career he worked in Jamaica, Nepal, USA, Canada and on sabbatical at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva.

Career

As Director (formerly Dean) of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine from 1000 to 2010 he had responsibility for academic leadership and management of the institution for nearly 10 years [1] Under his leadership the school received the 2009 Gates Award for Global Health ($1m),[2] the first academic institution to receive the award.

He was responsible for setting up the London International Development Centre and for raising £3.7m from HEFCE for this purpose.[3] The Centre, a collaborative initiative between 5 colleges of the University of London now has 3,000 staff, student and alumni members from its constituent colleges [4]

He was chair of a WHO Task Force on Health Systems Research in 2004 [5] and a member of the Council of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War at the time of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. He was also a member of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the second and third assessment reports and is review editor for the health chapter in fifth assessment report. He currently chairs the Tropical Health Education Trust, the Research Strategy Committee of the MS Society and the Marie Curie Cancer Research Programme Funding Committee.

He is a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners, the Royal College of Physicians of London and of the Faculty of Public Health. He was made a foreign Associate member of the US Institute of Medicine of the National Academies in 2007 and a fellow /member of a number of other national/international institutions. He was knighted for services to medicine in 2005[6]

Research

His research interests are in epidemiology and health services research, particularly on primary care and the study of environmental influences on health, including the effects of climate change and the health benefits of the low carbon economy.[7] Previous research included randomised trials evaluating interventions to change patient and practitioner behaviour, notably a large trial of general practitioner intervention in patients with heavy alcohol consumption.[8] He also chaired an international task force on climate change mitigation and public health which published a series of articles in the Lancet in 2009 [9][10] As chair of an international task force on guidance for health systems policies he co-authored a series of articles on the challenges of assessing evidence for health systems policies and developing guidance for policymakers, published in 2012.[11][12][13]

References

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  2. ↑ http://www.gatesfoundation.org/gates-award-global-health/Pages/2009-london-school-hygiene-tropical-medicine.aspx
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  5. ↑ Task Force on Health Systems Research, Informed choices for attaining the Millennium Development Goals: towards an international cooperative agenda for health systems research. Lancet 2004; 364: 997-1003.
  6. ↑ British Medical Journal
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  8. ↑ Wallace PB, Cutler S, Haines A. Randomised controlled trial of general practitioner intervention in patients with excessive alcohol consumption. British Medical Journal 1988; 297: 663-668.
  9. ↑ Haines A, McMichael AJ, Smith KR, Roberts I, Woodcock J, Markandya A, Armstrong BG, Campbell-Lenum D, Dangour AD, Davies M, Bruce N, Tonne C, Barrett M, Wilkinson P. Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: overview and implications for policy makers. Lancet 2009; 374: 2104-14.
  10. ↑
  11. ↑ PLoS Med. 2012;9(3):e1001185. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001185. Epub 2012 Mar 6
  12. ↑ PLoS Med. 2012;9(3):e1001186. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001186. Epub 2012 Mar 13,
  13. ↑ PLoS Med. 2012;9(3):e1001187. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001187. Epub 2012 Mar 20.

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