# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roy-m-anderson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:36:24.183Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roy-m-anderson"
name: "Roy M. Anderson"
slug: "roy-m-anderson"
description: "Sir Roy Malcolm Anderson is a leading international authority on the epidemiology and control of infectious diseases. He is the author, with Robert May, of the most highly cited book in this field, entitled Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control. His early work was on the population ecology of infectious agents before focusing on the epidemiology and control of human infections. His published research includes studies of the major viral, bacterial and parasitic infections of humans, wildlife and livestock. This has included major studies on HIV, SARS, foot and mouth disease, bovine tuberculosis, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), influenza A, antibiotic resistant bacteria, the neglected tropical diseases and most recently COVID-19. Anderson is the author of over 650 peer-reviewed scientific articles with an h-index of 125."
tagline: "British expert on epidemiology"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1947-04-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/roy.anderson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump