Alexander John Zapf (He/Him/His) – Alex is an epidemiologist from northern Germany and previously studied at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, University of Oxford, and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Alex earned graduate degrees in global health science and global disease epidemiology and control, and his experience spans national disease surveillance, disease modeling, and pandemic response research. His primary research interests include infectious disease epidemiology, public health surveillance, and pandemic preparedness and response. Alex is a doctoral student in the program in Population Health Science (PHS) specializing in infectious disease epidemiology. Outside of academia, Alex enjoys trying novel food and drinks (both local and international variants), listening to music (classic and contemporary), and exercising/running.
