Work on COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
The Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics is closely monitoring the progress of COVID-19 (coronavirus). Explore what CCDD has discovered and published about the Virus below.
Faculty working on COVID-19
A core group of CCDD faculty have been at the forefront of the response to COVID-19. Through research, media outreach, forums and events, these faculty are working tirelessly to expand understanding among the public and in the scientific community about what it will take to combat this pandemic.
Marc Lipsitch
Director and Professor of Epidemiology
Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology
Marc Lipsitch is Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is an author of more than 250 peer-reviewed publications on antimicrobial resistance, epidemiologic methods, mathematical modeling of infectious disease transmission, pathogen population genomics, and immunoepidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Recently he has had a growing interest in the use of transmission-dynamic simulations to improve the design of…
Caroline Buckee
Associate Director and Associate Professor
Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology
Dr. Caroline Buckee is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Associate Director of the Centre for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her work is focused on understanding the mechanisms driving the spread of infectious diseases that impact the most vulnerable populations worldwide, particularly malaria. Before coming to Harvard, Dr. Buckee completed a D.Phil. at the University of Oxford, and Omidyar and Wellcome Trust fellowships…
Bill Hanage
Associate Professor
Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology
Dr. Hanage is interested in pathogen evolution, which his lab investigates using modern population genomic methods and simple models, for many different infectious diseases. To understand the variation we observe in pathogen populations, we need theory to explain what we expect under different evolutionary histories, and the lab actively works to develop these methods with a particular focus on recombination and horizontal gene transfer, which has the ability to transfer…
Michael Mina
Assistant Professor
Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology
Dr. Michael Mina, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and a core member of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (CCDD). He is additionally an Assistant Professor in Immunology and Infectious Diseases at HSPH and Associate Medical Director in Clinical Microbiology (molecular diagnostics) in the Department of Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School He earned his…
Yonatan Grad
Assistant Professor
Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Yonatan is an assistant professor in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and an attending physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He earned his MD and PhD at Harvard Medical School, trained in internal medicine at BWH and infectious diseases at BWH and Massachusetts General Hospital, and did his research fellowship in the CCDD…
Megan Murray
Ronda Stryker and William Johnston Professor of Global Health, Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology
Megan Murray is an epidemiologist and an infectious disease physician, with over 25 years of experience in management of TB programs and TB epidemiology and is the director of the Research Core. Dr. Murray is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health where she leads a research team which conducts multidisciplinary research on MDR and XDR TB involving conventional and molecular epidemiology, cost-effectiveness and mathematical…
Mauricio Santillana
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Mauricio Santillana is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, a faculty member in the Computational Health Informatics Program at Boston Children’s Hospital, and an associate faculty at the Harvard Institute for Applied and Computational Sciences. Mauricio enjoys working with public health officials and clinicians in the design of decision-making support tools by leveraging Internet-based data sources such as Electronic Health Records, Bedside Monitors, Google search trends, Twitter microblogs, News…