Dr Boyle’s appointment as President of the International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France follows immediately on his tenure as Director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC/WHO) from 2004 to 2008 in Lyon, France. He previously had had a number of successive appointments with Glasgow University Department of Medicine, the West of Scotland Cancer Surveillance Unit, Harvard School of Public Health and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC/WHO). 

Professor Boyle is also currently Honorary Professor of Cancer Prevention and Control at Oxford University and Dundee University and Visiting Professor at Glasgow University.

Peter Boyle’s research interests lie mainly in disease prevention and translational research in its
broadest and he has published widely on a number of different types of cancer. He was Editor of the World Cancer Report 2008 which highlighted the growing global cancer crisis and is author of more than 500 scientific publications.

Peter Boyle has previously been Director of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Chronic Disease Epidemiology and a Member of the European Cancer Advisory Board. In this latter role he worked as scientific advisor to the European Commission on the European Tobacco Contents Directive which was voted into law in 2003.  He was also responsible for the two revisions of the European Code Against Cancer.