Andrew C Hayward (born April 1966) is professor of
infectious disease epidemiology and
inclusion health research at
University College London
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.
Research
Hayward was one of the founders of ''Flu Watch'' in 2006, designed to understand transmission of influenza in the general community. As well as continuing surveillance it has provided data for modelling flu epidemiology. Previously, models were based data from the USA between 1948 and 1981 that was collected in very different social, travel and community settings. Participant households in England were invited to join after being selected at random from the lists of volunteer general practitioners.
His research includes developing health intervention methods for people experiencing
homelessness
Homelessness, also known as houselessness or being unhoused or unsheltered, is the condition of lacking stable, safe, and functional housing. It includes living on the streets, moving between temporary accommodation with family or friends, liv ...
, drug users and people in prisons.
He was a member of the UK SAGE sub-committee
NERVTAG - New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group - that played a key role in advising the UK government during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Awards
In 2017, he was awarded the UCL Student Choice Award for Outstanding Post Graduate Research Supervision. In 2019, he was appointed Senior Investigator at the
National Institute for Health and Care Research
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) is the British government's major funder of clinical, public health, social care and translational research. With a budget of over £1.2 billion in 2020–21, its mission is to "impr ...
(NIHR).
He has a H-index of 57 on Google scholar.
References
External links
Living people
Academics of University College London
Fellows of the Royal Society of Biology
British epidemiologists
NIHR Senior Investigators
20th-century British medical doctors
21st-century British medical doctors
1966 births
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