Andy Haines
Professor of Environmental Change and Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (United Kingdom)
Andy Haines is a Professor of Environmental Change and Public Health with a joint appointment in the Dept of Public Health, Environments and Society and in the Dept of Population Health. He was previously Director (originally Dean) of LSHTM for nearly 10 years, up to October 2010, having previously been Professor of Primary Health Care at UCL between 1987-2000. Haines worked part-time as a general practitioner in North London for many years.
Between 1993 and 1996 Dr. Haines was on secondment as Director of Research & Development at the NHS Executive, North Thames and was consultant epidemiologist at the MRC Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit from 1980 to 19877. Dr. Haines has worked internationally in Nepal, Jamaica, Canada and the USA.
Andy Haines has been a member of many international and national committees including the MRC Global Health Group (chair) and the MRC Strategy Group. He was formerly chair of the Universities UK Health and Social Care Policy Committee and a member of the WHO Advisory Committee on Health Research. In recent years his research focus has been on the effects of environmental change on health and the impact of policies to adapt to or mitigate these changes. He was a member of Working Group 2 of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the second and third assessment reports and a review editor of the health chapter in the fifth assessment report. Dr. Haines chaired the Scientific Advisory Panel for the 2013 WHO World Health Report on Research for Universal Health Coverage. In 2014/2015 he chaired the Rockefeller Foundation/Lancet Commission on Planetary Health and co-chaired the development group for the Health Knowledge Action Network of Future Earth. He sits on a number of other national and international committees.