Christopher Dye

Christopher Dye
Born	15 April 1956 (1956-04-15) (age 55) Belfast, Northern Ireland
Citizenship	British
Fields	Epidemiology Public Health
Alma mater	University of York University of Oxford

Christopher Dye is Director of Health Information in the Office of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases at the World Health Organization and, from 2006–2009, was also Gresham Professor of Physic in the City of London.

Career

Chris Dye began professional life as an ecologist in the UK, having been awarded a first-class degree in biology from the University of York and a DPhil in zoology from the University of Oxford. After developing an interest in infectious diseases at Imperial College London, he moved to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to bring his research closer to public health. He was head of the School’s Vector Biology and Epidemiology Unit until 1996, carrying out research on leishmaniasis, malaria, rabies and other infectious and zoonotic diseases in Africa, Asia and South America.

In 1996, he joined the World Health Organization where he has developed methods for using national surveillance and survey data to study the large-scale dynamics and control of tuberculosis (TB) and other communicable diseases. Working with governments and other agencies he is continuously engaged in the process of translating science into health policy. From 2006–2009, he was Professor of Physic at Gresham College, 37th in a lineage of professors that have been giving public lectures in the City of London since 1597. He is a Visiting Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford, a member of the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science, and a Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences.^[1]

Selected publications

• Erasing the world's slow stain: strategies to beat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Science 2002;295:2042.
• Antiretroviral drugs for tuberculosis control in the era of HIV/AIDS. Science 2003;301:1535.
• The effect of tuberculosis control in China. Lancet 2004;364:417.
• Evolution of tuberculosis control and prospects for reducing tuberculosis incidence, prevalence, and deaths globally. JAMA 2005;293:2767.
• Effect of BCG vaccination on childhood tuberculous meningitis and miliary tuberculosis: a meta-analysis and assessment of cost-effectiveness. Lancet 2006;367:1175.
• Tuberculosis, in Disease control priorities in developing countries, DT Jamison, et al., Editors. 2006, Oxford University Press: Washington D.C. p. 289.
• The development and impact of tuberculosis vaccines. Cell 2006;124:683.
• Universal voluntary HIV testing with immediate antiretroviral therapy as a strategy for eliminating HIV transmission: a mathematical model. Lancet 2008;373,48.
• Global tuberculosis control: surveillance, planning, financing. World Health Organization, 12 volumes 1997-2008.^[2]
• The population dynamics and control of tuberculosis. Science 2010;328,856.

Further articles are listed by PubMed^[3]

Science discussions and lectures have been broadcast by the BBC,^[4] Gresham College,^[5] Fora TV,^[6] and You Tube.^[7]

References

1. ^ "Academy of Medical Sciences - Fellows: Professor Christopher Dye". www.acmedsci.ac.uk. http://www.acmedsci.ac.uk/p59fid4818.html. Retrieved 2010-05-13. 
2. ^ "WHO". www.who.int. http://www.who.int/tb/publications/global_report/archive/en/index.html. Retrieved 2010-05-13. 
3. ^ "PubMed". www.pubmed.gov. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=%22Dye%20C%22%5BAuthor%5D. Retrieved 2010-05-13. 
4. ^ "BBC In Our Time - Audio and Video". bbc.co.uk. http://bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548m0. Retrieved 2010-06-06. 
5. ^ "Gresham College - Audio and Video". www.gresham.ac.uk. http://www.gresham.ac.uk/audio_video.asp. Retrieved 2010-05-13. 
6. ^ "Fora TV - Audio and Video". bbc.co.uk. http://fora.tv/2009/03/26/Professor_Christopher_Dye_Are_Humans_Still_Evolving. Retrieved 2010-06-06. 
7. ^ "You Tube - Audio and Video". www.youtube.com. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LzvvYjrUEw. Retrieved 2010-06-06. 

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Name	Dye, Christopher
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Date of birth	1956-04-15
Place of birth	Belfast, Northern Ireland
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