Professor Dr. Paul Elliott

Biography

Paul Elliott trained in medicine and mathematics at the University of Cambridge and subsequently in clinical medicine and epidemiology at St Mary's Hospital London and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine where he was a Wellcome Trust Clinical Fellow. He completed his MSc in Epidemiology in 1983 and obtained his PhD in Epidemiology in 1991 under the mentorship of Professor Geoffrey Rose. Appointed as Chair of Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine at Imperial College London in 1995, he is also an honorary consultant in public health medicine and has contributed significantly to the field of epidemiology, particularly regarding chronic diseases and cardiovascular and cardiometabolic diseases. He is currently the Director of the MRC Centre for Environment and Health and leads the work programme in molecular epidemiology at the Imperial Dementia Research Institute. Elliott has played a key role in public health research and response during the COVID-19 pandemic, notably overseeing the REACT community surveillance study, which earned him recognition with a CBE in the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours List. He is engaged in multiple leadership roles within academic and health institutions, focusing on health determinants and public health research.

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