Professor Peter Chiodini

Professor Peter Chiodini graduated from King’s College London with first class honours in zoology and gained his PhD in parasitology at the Wellcome Research Laboratories.

He then studied medicine in London before undergoing specialist training in communicable diseases in Birmingham. He is Director of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) Malaria Reference Laboratory at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. 

Concerned at the heavy burden of malaria in the UK among African diaspora members, he co-founded the African Diaspora Malaria initiative with the aim of reducing that burden, advocating effective preventive measures tailor-made for the African diaspora.

He received an OBE in 2018 for his services to parasitology and malaria.