18 Facts About Andrew Haines

Sir Andrew Paul Haines was born on 26 February 1947 and is a British epidemiologist and academic.

Andrew Haines gained an MD in Epidemiology in the University of London in 1985.

Andrew Haines was a consultant in epidemiology in the Medical Research Council Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit between 1980 and 1987, and Professor of Primary Health Care at University College London from 1987 to 2000.

Andrew Haines worked part-time as an inner London General Practitioner between 1980 and 2000.

Andrew Haines had collaborative links with the Family Health Programme in Brazil for many years.

Andrew Haines has been a member of a number of major international and national committees including the MRC Global Health Group, the MRC Strategy Group and of the WHO Advisory Committee on Health Research.

Andrew Haines was chair of a WHO Task Force on Health Systems Research in 2004 and a member of the Council of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War at the time of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985.

Andrew Haines was a member of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the second and third assessment reports and review editor for the health chapter in fifth assessment report.

Andrew Haines chaired the Tropical Health Education Trust, and the Research Strategy Committees of the Multiple Sclerosis Society and Marie Curie.

Andrew Haines chaired an international task force on climate change mitigation and public health which published a series of articles in the Lancet in 2009.

Andrew Haines has co-authored over 400 scientific articles, editorials, book chapters and reports.

Andrew Haines's book co-authored with Howard Frumkin Planetary Health - Safeguarding Human Health in the Anthropocene Epoch was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.

Andrew Haines was co-author of the Lancet Pathfinder Commission report on Pathways to a healthy net-zero future, published in The Lancet in November 2023.

Andrew Haines was co-author of a publication on air pollution deaths attributable to fossil fuels, published in the BMJ.

Andrew Haines is a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners, the Royal College of Physicians, the Academy of Medical Sciences; an Hon.

Andrew Haines was knighted for services to medicine in 2005.

Andrew Haines was made a foreign Associate member of the US Institute of Medicine of the National Academies in 2007.

Andrew Haines was awarded the 2022 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.