Shabbar Jaffar#
| Membership Number: | 7317 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
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| ORCID: | 0000-0002-9615-1588 |
Present and Previous Positions
- July 2022 Director, UCL Institute for Global Health and Professor of Epidemiology
- 2015 - 2022 Prof of Epidemiology and Head, Dept of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM).
- 2010 - 2015 Professor of Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
- 2011 - 2013 Director, Karonga Prevention Study, Malawi (LSHTM)
- 2008 - 2011 Head, MRC Tropical Epidemiology Group, LSHTM
- 2005 - 2010 Reader in Epidemiology, LSHTM
- 2000 - 2005 Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology, LSHTM
- 1996 - 2000 Lecturer in Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, LSHTM
- 1993 - 1996 Scientist, (UK) Medical Research Council Laboratories, The Gambia
- 1992 - 1993 Medical Statistician, University of Reading
Fields of Scholarship
- Health systems
- Diabetes prevention and control
- Clinical trials
- Epidemiology
- HIV management and control
- Hypertension prevention and control
- Public Health in low-resource settings
Honours and Awards
- 2022 - 2025 Visiting Scholar, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, University of Barcelona
- 2021 Times Higher Education. Winner of the International Collaboration of the Year award
- 2016 - 2021 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
- 2011 Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), Edinburgh (non-clinical)
