Helen Weiss

This article is about the epidemiologist. For the composer, seeHelen L. Weiss.

Helen Weiss FMedSci
Occupation	Epidemiologist
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Thesis	Cancer epidemiology: with special reference to the long-term effects of explosure to ionizing radiation(1994)
Doctoral advisor	Sarah Darby
Academic work
Discipline	Epidemiology
Sub-discipline	HIV research low-income health mental health
Institutions	London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Helen Anne WeissFMedSciis a Britishepidemiologistwho specialises inHIVresearch, low-income health, and mental health. After getting her PhD at theImperial Cancer Research Fundin 1994, she started working at theLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,where she became Professor of Epidemiology. She was electedFellow of the Academy of Medical Sciencesin 2020.

Biography

Helen Anne Weiss, a cancer epidemiology student at theUniversity of Oxford,received her PhD there at theImperial Cancer Research Fund;her 1994 doctoral dissertation,Cancer epidemiology: with special reference to the long-term effects of explosure to ionizing radiation,was supervised bySarah Darby.After working abroad at theNational Cancer Institutein the United States during her postdoctoral career, she started working at theLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicinein 1997;there, she was Reader in Epidemiology and International Health as late as 2019,before becoming Professor of Epidemiology sometime before 2020.

As an academic, Weiss specialises in HIV research, low-income health, and mental health.Her research on decreased HIV risk for heterosexual circumcised men inspired guideline reforms by theWorld Health Organization.She has also worked for theMedical Research Council's International Statistics & Epidemiology Group as a statistical epidemiologist and as their director.In 2019, she served on theWorld Health OrganizationTechnical Advisory Group on Innovations in Male Circumcision as a member.

Weiss was electedFellow of the Academy of Medical Sciencesin 2020.