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Professor R Anderson

Professor Anderson qualified in medicine in Melbourne in 1964. From 1966 to 1972 he worked in Papua New Guinea, where his interest in epidemiology and public health began to develop. He moved to Britain in 1972 and spent two years at the Medical Research Council's Pneumoconiosis Unit in South Wales, followed by two years at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine studying public health.

In 1976 he was appointed to the senior lectureship in epidemiology at St George's Hospital Medical School and became Head of Department in 1983 and Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health in 1985. His main research intererest is in the epidemiology of asthma and the health effects of air pollution, but he also has experience in health services research. He is a former member of the NHS Central Research and Development Committee, and the London NHS Region Research Committee. He is a member of the UK Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollution (COMEAP) and the Expert Panel on Air Quality Standards (EPAQS). His international work includes the US Health Effects Institute Review Committee, the US National Academy of Sciences, and various WHO working groups on air pollution.