Helen Weiss

Helen Weiss
OccupationEpidemiologist
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
ThesisCancer epidemiology: with special reference to the long-term effects of explosure to ionizing radiation (1994)
Doctoral advisorSarah Darby
Academic work
DisciplineEpidemiology
Sub-discipline
  • HIV research
  • low-income health
  • mental health
InstitutionsLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Helen Anne Weiss FMedSci is a British epidemiologist who specialises in HIV research, low-income health, and mental health. After getting her PhD at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in 1994, she started working at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where she became Professor of Epidemiology. She was elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2020.