Sir Roy Malcolm Anderson FRS FMedSci MAE[8] (born 12 April 1947) 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.

[14][15] Anderson resigned from the University of Oxford after admitting that he had falsely alleged that a colleague, Sunetra Gupta, had won a position by having an affair with her head of department.

[25] He then went to Imperial College London[26] He moved to the Biomathematics Department at the University of Oxford as an IBM research fellow working on stochastic models of infectious disease spread under Professor Maurice Bartlett FRS.

In his time as Rector he focused on strengthening the emphasis on teaching as well as world renown research at Imperial, and on securing a new site in the White City, West London, to facilitate the expansion of Imperial's molecular and biomedical research, halls of residence, support for innovation and entrepreneurship and teaching facilities.

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[citation needed] Other memberships: Anderson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1986,[8] and was knighted in the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours list.

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