Rob Newton
Professor in Clinical Epidemiology

Profile

Biography

• Trained in medicine at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School, London (MBBS, 1991)
• Joined the Cancer Epidemiology Unit in Oxford in 1992 originally as an MRC Clinical Training Fellow and subsequently as an Imperial Cancer Research Fund/Cancer Research UK Research Fellow and Research Group Leader; D.Phil, 1998; MFPH, 2000; FFPH, 2008
• Appointed Reader in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of York (2005)
• Currently seconded to the Medical Research Council/ Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda - expanding the scope of research activity on non-communicable diseases

Departmental roles

• Graduate School Board
• Dissertation Development Committee

Research

Overview

Areas of Interest

• Infections and cancer
• Immune suppression and cancer
• Cancer in developing countries

Supervision

Rob would be interested in supervising PhDs in the following areas: cancer epidemiology, chronic disease in Africa.

Publications

Full publications list

• Rob Newton's publications

Teaching

Other teaching

• Frequent member of the teaching faculty for short courses in Cancer Epidemiology at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (World Health Organisation)
• External examiner, MSc in Global Health at the University of Oxford
• Contributor, HYMS undergraduate curriculum

External activities

Memberships

• Advisory group for the Monograph Programme of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (World Health Organisation)
• Previously acted on various advisory groups for the Medical Research Council, National Institute of Clinical Excellence, World Health Organisation and the European Commission

Editorial duties

• Associate Editor; BioMed Central – Molecular Cancer