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Professor Michael Adler
Emeritus Professor

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Telephone: +44 (0)20 7380 9946
Fax: +44 (0)20 7388 4182
E-mail: madler@gum.ucl.ac.uk

Michael Adler is the Professor of Genitourinary Medicine/Sexually Transmitted Diseases at Royal Free and University College Medical School. His main research interests are in the field of epidemiology, with particular interest in the development of models of care. He is an advisor to the British Government, the World Health Organisation, the United Nations and the European Commission. He is past President of the Medical Society for theStudy of Venereal Diseases. He is on the Executive Committee of the International Union Against Sexually Transmitted Infections. He has served on numerous committees for the Medical Research Council and Department of Health. In the past he has been Chairman of the Royal College of Physicians Committee on Genitourinary Medicine, and the Specialist Advisory Committee in Genitourinary Medicine.
He was the founding editor of the journal AIDS in 1986. He has published over 200 articles on STDs and AIDS and written and edited numerous books, the two most successful being the ABC of STDs and the ABC of AIDS, published by the British Medical Journal, which are seen as standard texts throughout the world, and are now in a 4th edition and 5th edition respectively. He has also written extensively in the lay press ranging from The Times to The Sun and is a frequent broadcaster.

He has been influential in persuading both the public and politicians of the importance of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. He has carried out numerous consultancies, particularly in Africa and India for WHO, UNAIDS, DfID, Marie Stopes International, etc. He has had a longstanding involvement with the voluntary sector, and was Chairman of the National AIDS Trust from 1991-2000. He is also patron and adviser to numerous other charities in the field of STDs and AIDS. During 1999, Professor Adler was elected to the Council of the Royal College of Physicians, appointed a Non-Executive Director of the Health Development Agency, and was seconded to the Department of Health to design and coordinate a national integrated strategy for sexual health and HIV which was published in July 2001. From June 2002 to June 2003 he acted as a specialist adviser to the House of Commons Health Select Committee during their inquiry into sexual health.  Currently he is advisor to the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV.  He was awarded a CBE in 1999 for services to HIV/AIDS.

Research Interests

  • Development of control programmes for STDs

Selected Publications

Adler M.W.  HIV – The other dimension.  Lancet 1997;349:498-500.

Adler M.W.  Cinderella and the glass slipper: the growth and modernization of a specialty.  Sexually Transmitted Infections, 1999;75:439-444.

Adler M.W., French P., McNab A., Smith C., Wellsteed S.  The national strategy for sexual health and HIV: implications for genitourinary medicine.  Sexually Transmitted Infections 2002;78:83-86.

Adler M.W. Sexual health – Health of the Nation.  A Decade Later – A Further Failure. Sexually Transmitted Infections 2003;79:85-87.

Adler M.W. Sex is Dangerous. Clinical Medicine, JRCPL 2005;5:62-8.

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