Andrew Hayward

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Andrew C Hayward
BornApril 1966 (age 57–58)
Birmingham
Academic background
Alma materSt Thomas's Hospital Medical School
Academic work
DisciplineEpidemiology and Public Health
Institutions

Andrew C Hayward MBBS, BSc, MSc, DTMH, MD, FPHM, FRSB (born April 1966) is professor of infectious disease epidemiology and inclusion health research at University College London.[1][2][3]

Research[edit]

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.[4]

His research includes developing health intervention methods for people experiencing homelessness, drug users and people in prisons.[5]

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.[6]

Awards[edit]

In 2017, he was awarded the UCL Student Choice Award for Outstanding Post Graduate Research Supervision.[7] In 2019, he was appointed Senior Investigator at the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).[8]

He has a H-index of 57 on Google scholar.[9]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Professor Andrew Hayward". UCL-TB. 22 June 2018.
  2. ^ "Professor Andrew Hayward".
  3. ^ "Iris View Profile". iris.ucl.ac.uk.
  4. ^ Fragaszy, Ellen B.; Warren-Gash, Charlotte; Wang, Lili; co-authors of the Flu Watch Group, and 17 (2017). "Cohort Profile: The Flu Watch Study". International Journal of Epidemiology. 46 (2): e18. doi:10.1093/ije/dyv370. PMC 5837336. PMID 26940466.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ "Professor Andrew Hayward". Homeless & Inclusion Health 2020. 5 February 2020. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  6. ^ "NERVTAG Membership 2021". NERVTAG. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
  7. ^ "2017 Student Choice Awardees". Students' Union UCL. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  8. ^ "NIHR Senior Investigators 2019". www.nihr.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  9. ^ "Andrew Hayward Google Scholar page 2021". Google Scholar. Retrieved 26 January 2021.

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