Betty Rosamund Kirkwood

Betty Rosamund Kirkwood is Professor of Epidemiology & International Health and Head, Public Health Intervention Research Unit (PHIRU), Department of Epidemiology and Population Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She conceived and established PHIRU in March 2001 as a methodological centre of excellence supporting the development and evaluation of public health interventions in the UK and in developing countries.

She has also worked on child health in Ghana, where she played a major role in the establishment of Kintampo Health Research Centre in 1994. She holds a degree in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge and a MSc in Statistics from the University of London.