Biography
Dr. Jeff Eaton is a Senior Lecturer in HIV Epidemiology in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College London and an Affiliate Associate Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the University of Washington. He holds a Master’s degree in Statistics from the University of Washington and a PhD in Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College London. His research interests involve developing new mathematical models, statistical methods, and surveillance tools to characterize HIV epidemic trends, transmission dynamics, and the demographic impacts of HIV epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa.
Dr. Eaton is a co-Chair of the UNAIDS Reference Group on Estimates, Modelling, and Projections (http://www.epidem.org), and a member of the WHO Reference Group on Global Health Statistics, UNAIDS Monitoring Technical Advisory Group, and WHO Maternal Mortality Technical Advisory Group. Additionally, Dr. Eaton has experience with the collection, management, and analysis of demographic surveillance and population cohort data and works closely with the Manicaland Centre for Public Health Research in eastern Zimbabwe and the ALPHA Network of general population HIV cohort studies.