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Liam SmeethLiam Smeeth

Professor of Clinical Epidemiology

Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

 

Liam Smeeth is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, and Head of the Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He also undertakes clinical work as a general practitioner in north London, and is involved in a wide range of activities for the National Health Service. Much of his research is based on making better use of computerised clinical data both to investigate drug effects and disease aetiology.

He holds a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship in Clinical Science and is Deputy Director of the Farr Institute London, one of the four UK Health Informatics Research Centres. His broad interests include disease aetiology, drug effects, genetics and non-communicable diseases in low income settings.

Forthcoming events

Festival of Global Health – Spillover: Planet of Viruses

Wednesday, 26 November 2025, 4pm to 8pm @ Curzon Oxford, Westgate Shopping Centre, Oxford OX1 1NZ

Oliver Smithies Lecture

Thursday, 27 November 2025, 5.15am to 6.15am @ Gillis Lecture Theatre

Talk title: Agency and Preference: Attitudes Toward Vaccination and Epidemic Risks

Optimising global frameworks for pandemic relevant research

Monday, 01 December 2025, 1pm to 2pm @ BDI/OxPop Seminar Rooms

IDEU Symposium 2026

Wednesday, 04 March 2026 to Thursday, 05 March 2026 @ Richard Doll Building - Lecture Theatre