Peter Pharoah

Peter Oswald Derrick Pharoah (19 May 1934 – 23 October 2021) was a British public health professor at the University of Liverpool from 1979 until 1997. He was known for his work on people with cretinism (as the condition was then known) in Papua New Guinea and cerebral palsy in the United Kingdom.

Early life Peter Pharoah was born in Ranchi, in the Indian state of Jharkhand, in May 1934. He went to school in Lovedale and Sanawar.

In 1948, after his father died, he and his mother moved back to Britain. He studied at Palmer's School in Grays, Essex, before studying at St Mary's Hospital Medical School at Imperial College London, where he met his wife and ran in a team with Sir Roger Bannister. as well as the health concerns of newborns who had a vanishing twin.

He was an editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Epidemiology (1991–2000).

Death Pharoah, who had dementia later in life, died on 23 October 2021.