Paul Fine
Professor of Communicable Disease Epidemiology London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK Tel: 0207- 927-2219 Email: Paul.fine@lshtm.ac.uk
VALIDATE Role: Network Investigator
Research Keywords: leprosy, tuberculosis, BCG, vaccines, epidemiology
Biography: Paul Fine trained in veterinary medicine in the US, and in epidemiology in the UK, worked in the smallpox eradication program in India and spent a year at U/C Berkeley working on arboviruses, before joining the staff of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1976, where he is now Professor of Communicable Disease Epidemiology. His major research interests have been in infection dynamics, family studies, genetics, and in the evaluation of vaccine efficacy, effectiveness, adverse reactions and impact, applied to a variety of infections. He directed a large epidemiological research programme (the "Karonga Prevention Study") in Malawi from 1978-2006, which included a trial of vaccines against leprosy and tuberculosis. Recent interests in vaccines have included the implications of the transmissibility of oral polio vaccine virus for the global polio eradication programme, the assessment and implications of “non-specific effects” of vaccines, evaluation of veterinary vaccines, and procedures for the optimization of vaccination schedules in developing countries.
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