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Dr
Meirion Evans
Dr Evans is
Senior Lecturer at the Department of Epidemiology, Statistics &
Public Health of University of Wales College of Medicine in the
UK. He is at the same time Honorary Regional Epidemiologist of Public
Health Laboratory Service Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre
(Wales), which is responsible for developing and running surveillance
systems in Wales, supporting national surveillance, and taking the
lead responsibility for surveillance of zoonoses in England &
Wales. It also provides advice on communicable disease policy and
strategy matters to the Welsh Assembly Government. Dr Evans is currently
involved with projects to study aetiology & antibiotic resistance
in campylobacter infection, to describe epidemiology of hepatitis
C in Wales, promote flu immunisation in older people, and improve
management of STI in primary care.
Dr Evans is
a very experienced epidemiologist and has extensive experience in
epidemic control. He has had field epidemiology experience at the
district, regional, and national level. He was team leader for outbreak
control for 10 years while working in Cardiff. From 1990 to 1999,
he was Consultant in Communicable Disease Control and Deputy Director
of Public Health of Bro Taf Health Authority and South Glamorgan
Health Authority. He was also a member of the World Health Organization
Expert Team which performed an assessment of the SARS situation
in the Guangdong province recently.
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