Richard Hayes is Professor of Epidemiology and International Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
He is a statistical epidemiologist, whose main research interest is in the epidemiology of infectious diseases of public health importance in low income countries. Following early work on sickle cell disease, malaria and other tropical infections, his research has focused chiefly on the epidemiology and control of HIV, other sexually transmitted infections and tuberculosis.
From the late 1980s, he collaborated in research on HIV and related infections with colleagues in Tanzania and helped to establish the Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit there. He has also carried out collaborative research in other parts of Africa, including Uganda, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia and South Africa. For many years, he led the MRC Tropical Epidemiology Group at LSHTM, and has also conducted research on statistical and epidemiological methods, including work on the design and analysis of cluster-randomised trials which resulted in a widely used textbook. He is Principal Investigator of the HPTN 071 (PopART) trial, which has measured the impact of universal testing and treatment for HIV on population-level HIV incidence in Zambia and South Africa, and which is the largest HIV prevention trial ever conducted. Richard is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
