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 internationally-recognized expert in methods and disease transmission modeling, and has been a leading scientific authority during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Lipsitch is an author of more than 350 peer-reviewed publications on antimicrobial resistance, epidemiologic methods, mathematical modeling of infectious disease transmission, bacterial and…
David L. Swerdlow MD recently retired from Pfizer Vaccines. During his six-year tenure at Pfizer he was Global COVID Vaccine Medical Lead and Clinical Epidemiology & Business Development Lead. Prior to Pfizer Vaccines, he worked at CDC for 25 years. From 2009–15 he was the Associate Director for Science, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD). He led the CDC MERS Coronavirus Responses in 2013 and 2014 and held…
Dr. Caroline Buckee is a Professor of Epidemiology 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 at the Santa Fe Institute and the Kenya Medical Research Institute,…
Grace Chan is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her work focuses on improving maternal and child health in under-served populations by using epidemiologic methods to discover and deliver evidence-based interventions. In partnership with the Ethiopian Public Health Institute, she leads HaSET (“happiness” in Amharic) a program for maternal and child health research in Ethiopia. With…
Jeff Eaton is an Associate Professor in Epidemiology in Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He holds an Master’s degree in Statistics from the University of Washington and PhD in Infectious Disease Epidemiology from Imperial College London. His research focuses on developing new mathematical models, statistical methods, and surveillance tools to characterize HIV epidemic trends, transmission dynamics and the demographic impacts of HIV, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Eaton co-chairs…
Yonatan is a 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 with…
Dr. Bill Hanage is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Associate Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. His research and teaching focus on the epidemiology of infectious disease and the evolution of infectious agents. He received his PhD from Imperial College London. Dr. Hanage has made seminal contributions to the study of diverse pathogens, both bacteria and viruses, and…
Nick Menzies is Associate Professor of Global Health in the Department of Global Health and Population, and part of the core faculty of the Harvard Center for Health Decision Science. Professor Menzies uses decision science and quantitative research to understand the consequences of policies to combat major infectious diseases, and help design effective disease control programs when resources are limited. Professor Menzies combines empirical data with mathematical modeling to examine…
Megan Murray is an epidemiologist and an infectious disease physician with over 25 years of experience studying tuberculosis and other emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. Dr. Murray is the Ronda Stryker and William Johnston Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. She is also the director of the Research Core in the Department of…
Mauricio Santillana, PhD, MSc is the director of the Machine Intelligence Research Lab in the Network Science Institute. He is a Professor in the Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments at Northeastern University. 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 Alerts, Weather,…
