Prof. David Ross

David Ross is a Professor of Epidemiology and International Public Health in the Epidemiology & Public Health Department of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, where he has been on the staff since 1983. He spent his childhood in Nigeria and then the UK, and qualified as a medical doctor in 1980. Since then he has worked in epidemiology and international public health research and teaching, exclusively working on low and middle income country issues. He has lived and worked for at least a year in Sierra Leone (1981-82), Ethiopia/Sudan (1984-85), Ghana (1988-92), and Tanzania (1997-2002), as well as making short work visits to other countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He prefers to work in multi-disciplinary teams investigating the impact and cost-effectiveness of interventions of major public health importance in low income communities and countries. His main current research areas are the prevention and treatment of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, adolescent health, vitamin A deficiency, and intervention study methodology. He has been the Principal Investigator of a large community randomised controlled trial of an adolescent sexual health intervention in Mwanza, Tanzania from 1997 to date, and is the Director of the DFID-supported Evidence for Action on HIV Treatment and Care Systems Research Programme Consortium. He is a member of advisory panels including the Scientific Advisory Committees of the INDEPTH Network of Demographic and Health Observatories, and the Navrongo Health Research Centre’s Adolescent Sexual & Reproductive Health Trial, and is on the Council of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene