CURRICULUM VITAE: Thomas Andrew Smith

CURRICULUM VITAE: Thomas Andrew Smith

DATE OF BIRTH: 20/2/1957. NATIONALITY: British, resident in France.

CURRENT POSITION: Professor and Head of Health Systems Research and Dynamical Modeling Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland

EDUCATION:

BA (MA) Hons. 1st Class in Natural Sciences (Genetics) University of Cambridge, England 1979.

PhD, in Experimental Pathology; University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 1983

MSc, in Medical Statistics. University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.

Habilitation, in Epidemiology, University of Basel, Switzerland, 1996.

Titular Professor in Epidemiology, University of Basel, Switzerland, 2004.

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT:

1980-1983 Research Associate, Department of Pathology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland,

1984-1987 Statistician, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh, Scotland.

1988-1991: Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow in Biostatistics, PNGIMR, Papua New Guinea

1991- Epidemiologist/Statistician, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute.

MAIN RESEARCH GRANTS HELD AS PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (LAST 5 YEARS)

2009 A stochastic simulation platform for predicting the effects of different malaria intervention strategies. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation:Project 39777.01 Amount: US$1,966,360.

2009 Estimating transition rates for epidemiological models of endemic Plasmodium vivax malaria Swiss National Science Foundation, total amount CHF 440’373

2009 Master service agreement for modelling of malaria vaccines. PATH-MVI. Amount CHF 360’861.

2011 Further development of simulations of Plasmodium falciparum interventions and their integration with the needs of stakeholders. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Project OPP1032350 US$4,526,644

2015 Master service agreement for modelling of malaria vaccines. PATH-MVI. Amount US$ $1,144k.

2016 Design of trials for pathogen elimination. Swiss National Science Foundation, total amount CHF331’408

2016 Continuation of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Project OPP1032350. US$2,949,587

RESEARCH STUDENT SUPERVISION

Supervised 18 successful PhD Students in Epidemiology, University of Basel (since 1999)

Supervised 5 successful Diploma in Epidemiology (Biology I, University of Basel) (1999-2004)

Supervised 5 successful MSc Epidemiology students (University of Basel) (since 2005)

RELEVANT TRACK RECORD

Tom Smith has a long track-record of research in malaria epidemiology and modelling and leads a team at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute researching in these areas. His main research program for the last decade has been to develop and apply microsimulation software for predictive modelling of the impact of malaria interventions.

PUBLICATIONS

A complete publication list (over 300 articles) can be found at:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thomas_Smith23/publications

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