David Miles

David Miles is an infectious-disease immunologist who has worked mostly on diseases of childhood in Africa and the vaccinations that protect against them. He now lives in London and tutors on the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s online MSc course. Vaccines and diseases are a subject close to his heart, not just because he’s a career immunologist, but also because a stem-cell transplant in his youth left him without an immune system, relying on herd immunity to keep him safe, and having to practice social distancing long before it was cool.


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