| Honorific Suffix: | CBE, FRS, FRCP |
| Birth Name: | Thomas Wilson Meade |
| Birth Date: | 21 January 1936 |
| Death Place: | London |
| Nationality: | British |
| Spouse: | Elizabeth Meade (née Perks) |
| Children: | Richard David Meade, Helen Anna Meade, Rebecca Meade. |
| Parents: | James Edward Meade, Margaret Elizabeth Meade (née Wilson). |
| Awards: | Balzan Prize for Epidemiology |
Thomas Wilson Meade (21 January 1936 – 24 October 2022) was a British epidemiologist. He was a pioneer in epidemiology—in particular, in the role blood clotting factors have in cardiovascular disease.[1]
Meade underwent medical training at Christ Church, Oxford, and afterwards at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying in 1960.[2]
In 1970, after a period studying at the Schieffelin Leprosy Research Sanatorium in South India,[3] he became Director of the Medical Research Council's Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit. He retired from there in 2001, and became Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, investigating cardiovascular disease.
Meade held Honorary Consultant positions in Epidemiology at St Bartholomew's, and at Northwick Park Hospital.
Meade was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1994 Birthday Honours "For services to Medicine and to Science", elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996[4] and received the Balzan Prize for epidemiology in 1997.[5]
Tom Meade was a Quaker, attending Hampstead Friends Meeting. He had a son and two daughters, and eight grandchildren.[6] Meade's son, Sir Richard Meade, was appointed a High Court judge in 2020.[7] One of his daughters runs the Railway Land Wildlife Trust in Lewes, Sussex, the other is a NHS medical doctor in London.
Meade died on 24 October 2022, at the age of 86.[8]