The BPH welcomes Nigel Rollins as a Visiting Professor

The BPH, and in particular the GHIGS team, welcomes Professor Nigel Rollins as a Visiting Professor.
This collaboration is taking place as part of government funding awarded to the University of Bordeaux as an Initiative of Excellence under the France 2030 plan.
We invite you to (re)discover the three conferences given by Nigel Rollins, Professor of Global Health at Queen’s University Belfast

Bordeaux Population Health, and the GHiGS team in particular, will welcome Professor Nigel ROLLINS as a Visiting Professor in 2025–26, as part of a French government grant awarded by the University of Bordeaux under the ‘Initiative of Excellence’ of the ‘France 2030’ plan.

As part of this initiative, Nigel Rollins delivered the following three conferences in English at the BPH, which can be listened to again via the links below:

• Infant feeding in HIV: Learning from 25 years and thinking what the future brings
• Conflicts of interest and Cognitive dissonance: the challenge of commercial interests for health professionals and policy makers
• Translating research and evidence for WHO guidelines and adaptation for countries

Nigel Rollins has a background as a pediatrician and led the Centre for Maternal and Child Health at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa for 14 years, where his work focused on diarrhoeal diseases, malnutrition and HIV. In 2008, he joined the WHO Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health in Geneva, where he served as a researcher until 2024. He is currently Professor of Global Health at Queen’s University Belfast.

Professor Rollins has led several multicentre trials on antiretroviral drugs and postnatal HIV transmission, and has implemented programmes to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV through infant feeding. His work also includes supporting implementation research through the design of intervention programmes and the evaluation of their benefits for children, their mothers and their families.

He has contributed to several Lancet Series and coordinated the series on breastfeeding in 2023 (https://www.thelancet.com/series-do/breastfeeding-2023). He is also currently a member of the WHO Ethics Committee.