Professor Andrew Phillips

Andrew Phillips is Professor of Epidemiology at University College London, United Kingdom. He has worked in the HIV field for more than 30 years, working on HIV observational cohorts (including the Royal Free Haemophilia Cohort, CASCADE, EuroSIDA, D:A:D, COHERE/PLATO, UK CHIC, the UK HIV Seroconversion Register, PARTNER, ASTRA and AURAH), randomized trials (including INSIGHT SMART and START trials) and simulation modelling (HIV Synthesis Model).

Andrew Phillips’ work on observational studies began with describing the link between time updated CD4 cell count and the risk of AIDS and other aspects of HIV natural history, including the effects of age and viral load. As effective therapy became available, Andrew moved on to examining the effects of antiretroviral therapy in large clinical cohorts. Particular areas of interest have included failure to suppress viral loads, drug resistance, adverse effects of antiretroviral therapy and the link between HIV and the risk of non-AIDS diseases.

Much of this work involved close collaboration with the Copenhagen HIV Programme (CHIP). Andrew and colleagues developed individual-based simulation models of HIV transmission, progression and the effect of antiretroviral therapy in an attempt to address public health questions not addressable in trials or analyses of observational studies, both in low- and middle-income and high-income country contexts.