Christopher Dye

Christopher Dye (born 1956) is Coordinator of Tuberculosis Monitoring and Evaluation at the World Health Organization and Gresham Professor of Physic in the City of London.

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Dye was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and began professional life as an ecologist in the UK, having taken a first-class degree in biology and a DPhil in zoology from the universities of York and Oxford. After developing an interest in infectious disease ecology (epidemiology) on a postdoctoral fellowship at Imperial College London, he moved to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to bring his epidemiological research closer to public health. He was head of the School’s Vector Biology and Epidemiology Unit for several years, carrying out research on leishmaniasis, malaria, rabies and other infectious and zoonotic diseases. Funding from the Wellcome Trust and the UK Medical Research Council supported major research projects in Brazil, Kenya, Peru, and Tanzania.

In 1996, Dye was recruited by the World Health Organization to work on the epidemiology and control of tuberculosis (TB). He now coordinates the work of WHO's tuberculosis department in epidemiology and economics, the goal of which is to provide better evidence in support of the policy and practice of TB control.

He has published around 200 scientific articles on the epidemiology and control of infectious diseases and, from 1997 to 2007, has been principal editor of WHO's annual report on Global Tuberculosis Control. From 2006-2009, he is also Professor of Physic at Gresham College, 37th in a lineage of professors that have been giving public lectures in the City of London since 1597.