[2] Meade underwent medical training at Christ Church, Oxford, and afterwards at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying in 1960.
[5] He retired from there in 2001, and became Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, investigating cardiovascular disease.
[3] Meade held Honorary Consultant positions in Epidemiology at St Bartholomew's, and at Northwick Park Hospital.
[5] Meade was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1994 Birthday Honours "For services to Medicine and to Science",[6] elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996[3][7] and received the Balzan Prize for epidemiology in 1997.
[9] One of his daughters runs the Railway Land Wildlife Trust in Lewes, Sussex, the other is a NHS medical doctor in London.