Peter Boyle

Peter Boyle, FRSE FFPH FRCPS(Glas) FRCP(Edin) FMedSci, (8 June 1951 – 23 July 2022) was a British epidemiologist. He conducted research on globalisation of cancer, where he showed the dramatic increase of cancer in low- and medium income countries. Early life and education Boyle was born in Glasgow, Scotland and studied statistics at the University of Glasgow (BSC in 1974) and received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Epidemiology in 1985 from the University of Glasgow, Faculty of Medicine). Career He initially wanted to become a teacher but became fascinated in science. From 1974 to 1977 he worked as a statistician at the University Department of Medicine, Glasgow and the following seven years at the West of Scotland Cancer Surveillance Unit in Glasgow. Here, he developed his lifelong concern over tobacco and tobacco control, and was drawn into epidemiology. In 1984, he moved to Boston and worked at the Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health and the Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute as Instructor and Assistant Professor. During this time Boyle coauthored his first two Lancet publications on cancer mortality in Scotland. In 1986, he returned to Europe and became Scientist at the International Agency for Research on Cancer, IARC, in Lyon, and Group Head of SEARCH (Surveillance of Environmental Aspects Related to Cancer in Humans.