Jane Anderson (physician)

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Jane Anderson
Alma materQueen Elizabeth College
St Mary's Hospital Medical School
Scientific career
InstitutionsBarts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry
Homerton University Hospital

Jane Anderson CBE is a British physician who specialises in the management of HIV/AIDS. She serves as an expert advisor for Public Health England and as Chair of the National AIDS Trust.

Early life and education[]

Anderson originally trained as a nutritionist at Queen Elizabeth College.[1] In an interview with The BMJ Anderson revealed that as a teenager she had underperformed in her A-levels and had initially not secured a place at medical school. Eventually she was accepted as a mature student to St Mary's Hospital Medical School.[2] She started work as a research assistant in a metabolic unit.[2] Anderson started her professional career in the eighties, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.[2]

Research and career[]

Anderson is a Fellow at King's Fund.[3] She has dedicated her career to improving the long-term health outcomes of people living with HIV.[2] In the early nineties Anderson joined Barts and The London, where she worked as a consultant physician, and held a joint position at Homerton University Hospital.[4] Anderson serves as Director of the Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Centre for the Study of Sexual Health and HIV.[1] In 2005 she presented evidence before the government, arguing that long-stay visitors to the United Kingdom, undocumented people and those refused indefinite leave to remain should not be charged for HIV care.[5]

Anderson has held various senior public health positions in the United Kingdom, including leading the Public Health England HIV, Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Wellbeing Directorate from 2013 to 2016.[6][7] In 2021 she was elected Master of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries.[8] In 2016 Anderson was made Chair of the National AIDS Trust.[9][10]

Awards and honours[]

Select publications[]

  • "Treatment of HIV-1 infected adults with antiretroviral therapy (2008)". www.bhiva.org. Retrieved 2020-11-20.
  • May, Margaret T.; Gompels, Mark; Delpech, Valerie; Porter, Kholoud; Orkin, Chloe; Kegg, Stephen; Hay, Phillip; Johnson, Margaret; Palfreeman, Adrian; Gilson, Richard; Chadwick, David (2014-05-15). "Impact on life expectancy of HIV-1 positive individuals of CD4+ cell count and viral load response to antiretroviral therapy". AIDS (London, England). 28 (8): 1193–1202. doi:10.1097/QAD.0000000000000243. ISSN 0269-9370. PMC 4004637. PMID 24556869.
  • Peltzer, Karl; Friend-du Preez, Natalie; Ramlagan, Shandir; Anderson, Jane (2010-03-05). "Antiretroviral treatment adherence among HIV patients in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa". BMC Public Health. 10 (1): 111. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-10-111. ISSN 1471-2458. PMC 2837855. PMID 20205721.

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Coleman, Jasmine. "Meet the Hackney doctor keeping HIV in public eye". Hackney Gazette. Retrieved 2020-11-20.
  2. ^ a b c d Group, British Medical Journal Publishing (2017-08-02). "Jane Anderson: HIV and human rights". BMJ. 358: j3667. doi:10.1136/bmj.j3667. ISSN 0959-8138. PMID 28768615. S2CID 5268806.
  3. ^ "Jane Anderson". The King's Fund. Retrieved 2020-11-20.
  4. ^ "Steering group | SWIFT". www.swift-women.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
  5. ^ "House of Commons - Health - Written Evidence". publications.parliament.uk. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
  6. ^ "Jane Anderson - Public health matters". publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk. Retrieved 2020-11-20.
  7. ^ "Our patrons – Sophia Forum". Retrieved 2020-11-20.
  8. ^ "Who we are". The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries. Retrieved 2020-11-20.
  9. ^ a b Bartholomew, Emma. "AIDS expert Jane Anderson joins national HIV board". Hackney Gazette. Retrieved 2020-11-20.
  10. ^ "Jane Anderson | Infected Blood Inquiry". www.infectedbloodinquiry.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-11-20.
  11. ^ "Complete List | 100 Leading Ladies". www.100leadingladies.com. Retrieved 2020-11-20.
  12. ^ "Queen's birthday honours list 2015: GCB, DBE and CBE". the Guardian. 2015-06-12. Retrieved 2020-11-20.
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