Dye, Christopher

World Health Organization

Dr Christopher Dye is Director of Strategy, Policy and Information in the Office of the Director General at the World Health Organization. Chris began professional life as an ecologist in the UK, having graduated from the University of York (BA Biology) and the University of Oxford (DPhil Zoology). After developing an interest in infectious diseases at Imperial College London, he moved to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to bring his research closer to public health. He was head of the School’s Vector Biology and Epidemiology Unit until 1996, carrying out research on leishmaniasis, malaria, rabies and other infectious and zoonotic diseases in Africa, Asia and South America. In 1996, he joined the World Health Organization where he has developed methods for using national surveillance and survey data to study the large-scale dynamics and control of tuberculosis (TB), malaria, Ebola, Zika and other communicable diseases. As Director of Strategy, he now serves as science advisor to the DG and other senior staff, oversees the production and dissemination of health information via WHO press and libraries, and coordinates WHO’s sustainable development network. From 2006–2009, he was also Professor of Physic (and other Biological Sciences) at Gresham College, 35th in a lineage of professors that have been giving public lectures in the City of London since 1597. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society (the UK National Academy of Sciences) and of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences. He is a Visiting Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford, and a member of the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science.

(last updated 25.09.2017)