Peter Boyle (8 June 1951 – 23 July 2022) was a British epidemiologist. He conducted research on globalisation of cancer, where he showed the dramatic increase of cancer in low- and medium income countries.
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Early life and education
Boyle was born in Glasgow, Scotland and studied statistics at the University of Glasgow (BSC in 1974) and received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Epidemiology in 1985 from the University of Glasgow, Faculty of Medicine).
Career
He initially wanted to become a teacher but became fascinated in science. From 1974 to 1977 he worked as a statistician at the University Department of Medicine, Glasgow and the following seven years at the West of Scotland Cancer Surveillance Unit in Glasgow. Here, he developed his lifelong concern over tobacco and tobacco control, and was drawn into epidemiology.