Jane Anderson (physician)

Anderson originally trained as a nutritionist at Queen Elizabeth College.[1] In an interview with The BMJ Anderson revealed that as a teenager she had underperformed in her A-levels and had initially not secured a place at medical school. Eventually she was accepted as a mature student to St Mary's Hospital Medical School.[2] She started work as a research assistant in a metabolic unit.[2] Anderson started her professional career in the eighties, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.[2]

Anderson is a Fellow at King's Fund.[3] She has dedicated her career to improving the long-term health outcomes of people living with HIV.[2] In the early nineties Anderson joined Barts and The London, where she worked as a consultant physician, and held a joint position at Homerton University Hospital.[4] Anderson serves as Director of the Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Centre for the Study of Sexual Health and HIV.[1] In 2005 she presented evidence before the government, arguing that long-stay visitors to the United Kingdom, undocumented people and those refused indefinite leave to remain should not be charged for HIV care.[5]

Anderson has held various senior public health positions in the United Kingdom, including leading the Public Health England HIV, Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Wellbeing Directorate from 2013 to 2016.[6][7] In 2021 she was elected Master of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries.[8] In 2016 Anderson was made Chair of the National AIDS Trust.[9][10]

• 2012 Appointed Chair of the British HIV Association[1]
• 2014 100 Leading Ladies[11]
• 2015 Appointed Commander, Order of the British Empire[12]
• 2016 Appointed Chair of the National AIDS Trust.[9]

• "Treatment of HIV-1 infected adults with antiretroviral therapy (2008)". www.bhiva.org. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
• May, Margaret T.; Gompels, Mark; Delpech, Valerie; Porter, Kholoud; Orkin, Chloe; Kegg, Stephen; Hay, Phillip; Johnson, Margaret; Palfreeman, Adrian; Gilson, Richard; Chadwick, David (15 May 2014). "Impact on life expectancy of HIV-1 positive individuals of CD4+ cell count and viral load response to antiretroviral therapy". AIDS (London, England). 28 (8): 1193–1202. doi:10.1097/QAD.0000000000000243. ISSN 0269-9370. PMC 4004637. PMID 24556869.
• Peltzer, Karl; Friend-du Preez, Natalie; Ramlagan, Shandir; Anderson, Jane (5 March 2010). "Antiretroviral treatment adherence among HIV patients in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa". BMC Public Health. 10 (1): 111. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-10-111. ISSN 1471-2458. PMC 2837855. PMID 20205721.