Janet Darbyshire, OBE is a British epidemiologist and science administrator.

Darbyshire joined the Medical Research Council (MRC) in 1974, first co-ordinating clinical trials and epidemiological studies of tuberculosis, asthma and other respiratory diseases in the UK and East Africa for the MRC Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases Unit. She became the head of the MRC HIV Clinical Trials Centre when it was founded in 1989, designing and co-ordinating multi-centre trials of therapeutics for people with HIV, as well as vaccines and microbicides to prevent infection.

In 1998, she became head of the new MRC Clinical Trials Unit, established as a centre of excellence for clinical trials, meta-analyses and epidemiological studies in HIV, cancer and other diseases.^[1] She is also co-director of the UK Clinical Research Network (UKCRN).^[2]

She is a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences^[3] and the Royal College of Physicians.

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• Academy of Medical Sciences interview

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