Walter Holland

Professor Walter Holland qualified from St Thomas's Medical School in 1954, having obtained a first degree in Physiology. He served in the Royal Air Force, attached to the Epidemiological Research Laboratory at Colindale and, after a further appointment as Lecturer to the Department of Medicine at St Thomas's, he was made MRC Clinical Research Fellow in the Department of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene. This was followed by a year in the Department of Epidemiology at John Hopkins School of Hygiene and then his return to St Thomas's in 1962 and his appointment to Professor in 1968. Professor Holland is now retired from UMDS (Guy's and St Thomas's) and is based at LSE Health and Social Care as Emeritus Professor of Public Health Medicine and Visiting Professor.

Professor Holland's main research interests have been in the epidemiology of chronic respiratory disease, blood pressure and the application of epidemiologic principles to health services research.