Dr. Adrian Smith

Biography

Adrian joined the Department of Public Health in 2005, where he has focused on international infectious disease epidemiology and oversees Population Global Health courses delivered to students at the Medical Sciences Division of Oxford. He has extensive experience in the design and delivery of clinical postgraduate teaching, training, and assessment, particularly in the fields of epidemiology and public/global health. His main research interest is in HIV prevention and treatment among high-risk populations in sub-Saharan Africa. His research includes primary observational and intervention studies of individual, network, and structural HIV/STI transmission risks among men who have sex with men, female sex workers, and fisherfolk in East Africa, as well as secondary syntheses of epidemiological data from sub-Saharan Africa. His work has brought attention to previously unrecognized high-risk populations in sub-Saharan Africa and has helped prompt major changes in global HIV/AIDS surveillance and funding policy. His research employs a range of methods including conventional epidemiological designs, validation studies, evidence synthesis methods, dynamic transmission modeling, and hierarchical linear modeling. Adrian collaborates with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, KEMRI, and colleagues from the World Health Organization, University of Washington, University of Cambridge, and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

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