Tony Waldron

Tony Waldron (died January 2021) was a British physician and bioarchaeologist specialising in occupational medicine, palaeopathology, and palaeoepidemiology. He was an honorary professor at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, a lecturer in occupational medicine at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and a consultant physician at University College Hospital and St Mary's Hospital. He wrote a number of books on bioarchaeology, including the widely used textbooks Palaeoepidemiology and Palaeopathology (2009).

Career Waldron studied medicine at the University of Birmingham and also had degrees in history and law. In letters to The Guardian and The Times, he criticised the management of the National Health Service (NHS) for disregarding the occupational health of hospital workers, and the government for appointing non-experts to leadership roles, and ultimately left the NHS "after a reform too far". A Field Guide to Joint Disease in Archaeology (1995, with Juliet Rogers), Shadows in the Soil: Human Bones and Archaeology (2001), Palaeoepidemiology: The Measure of Disease in the Human Past (2007), and Palaeopathology (2009, part of the Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology series). He was particularly interested in the history of joint disease, malignant disease, and infectious disease, and in the years before his death was studying congenital syphilis and the traces it leaves on skeletons. and Calvin Wells.