Rate My Professor Jaime Miranda

J. Jaime Miranda, MD, MSc, PhD, FFPH, FMedSci, serves as Professor and Head of School of the Sydney School of Public Health at the University of Sydney's Faculty of Medicine and Health, a position he has held since April 2023. He obtained his MD from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) Faculty of Medicine in Lima, Peru, followed by an MSc in Epidemiology and a PhD in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology in London, United Kingdom. Before moving to Sydney, he was Full Professor in the Department of Medicine at UPCH School of Medicine and founding Director of the CRONICAS Center of Excellence in Chronic Diseases in Lima, Peru. Additional appointments include Professor of Global Health at LSHTM from July 2019 to November 2024 (now Honorary Professor), Distinguished Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health since March 2021, Bernard Lown Scholar in Cardiovascular Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health since July 2017, Erasmus Mundus Scholar at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam from 2013 to 2013, Profesor Libre at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata Escuela Superior de Medicina since June 2022, and International Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Washington University in St. Louis from March to April 2025.

Professor Miranda's research integrates epidemiological and health policy dimensions of chronic non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries, emphasizing obesity, hypertension, diabetes, mental health, public health, epidemiology, major global burdens of disease, health services and systems, and multimorbidity. His interdisciplinary research model has been highlighted by Nature as scarce worldwide, with his trajectory profiled in The Lancet in 2023. He has amassed over 77,000 citations on Google Scholar. Honors include election as Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom in 2012, selection as one of 30 scientists under 40 redefining science in Latin America in 2014, and election as Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences in 2025. He has contributed significantly through leadership roles such as Co-Chair of the UN Secretary-General's Independent Group of Scientists for the 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report (2020-2023), President of the Pan American Health Organization Advisory Committee on Health Research (2014-2016), member of the World Health Organization's Technical Advisory Group on NCD-related Research and Innovation (2021-2025), Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee for the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (2021-2024), Co-Chair of the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases Joint Technical Steering Committee (2012-2016), and Councillor for Latin America and the Caribbean of the International Epidemiological Association (2011-2014).