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Adam Kucharski

Adam Kucharski is a mathematician and epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine whose team's COVID-19 models informed UK government policy during the pandemic.

Alessandro Vespignani

Alessandro Vespignani is an Italian-born physicist at Northeastern University in Boston who works in computational epidemiology and network science, known for GLEAM, a global model for forecasting infectious disease spread.

Anderson Gray McKendrick

Anderson Gray McKendrick (1876–1943) was a Scottish physician and epidemiologist who, with William Ogilvy Kermack, published the 1927 epidemic theory paper introducing the threshold theorem.

Bryan Grenfell

Bryan T. Grenfell is a British population biologist and infectious disease modeller at Princeton University, known for phylodynamics and measles traveling waves, and winner of the 2022 Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences.

C. Jessica E. Metcalf

C. Jessica E. Metcalf (born 1978) is a disease ecologist and demographer, professor at Princeton University known for work on measles, rubella, and serological surveys.

Derek A. T. Cummings

Derek A. T. Cummings, also published as Derek Cummings, is an infectious-disease epidemiologist known for modeling dengue and influenza, and a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins.

Diann Prosser

Diann Prosser is an American research wildlife ecologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Laurel, Maryland, known for modeling how waterfowl movements spread avian influenza.

Donald S. Burke

Donald S. Burke is an American epidemiologist and vaccinologist who developed the first HIV diagnostic tests and served as dean of the University of Pittsburgh's public health school.

Henrik Salje

Henrik Salje is an infectious-disease epidemiologist who is Professor of Disease Ecology at the University of Cambridge, known for estimating the global burden of chikungunya and evaluating the Dengvaxia vaccine.

Howard Markel

Howard Markel is an American physician and medical historian at the University of Michigan known for studies of US cities' responses to the 1918 influenza pandemic.

Jason McLellan

Jason S. McLellan is an American structural biologist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin whose prefusion-stabilized spike protein design is used in COVID-19 and RSV vaccines.

Jeffrey Shaman

Jeffrey Shaman is an epidemiologist and environmental scientist at Columbia University known for forecasting influenza outbreaks and estimating that most early COVID-19 infections in China were undocumented.

John D. Mathews

John D. Mathews is an Australian physician-epidemiologist known for his 1967 transmission model for kuru and as founding director of the Menzies School of Health Research.

John S. Brownstein

John S. Brownstein is a computational epidemiologist who is Chief Innovation Officer at Boston Children's Hospital and a Harvard Medical School professor, known for creating HealthMap and pioneering digital epidemiology.

Justin Lessler

Justin Lessler is an American infectious disease epidemiologist and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, known for national COVID-19 modeling and the Scenario Modeling Hub.

Laith J. Abu-Raddad

Laith J. Abu-Raddad (Laith Jamal Abu-Raddad) is a Qatar-based infectious disease epidemiologist and mathematical modeller, professor at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, known for COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness studies.

Matt J. Keeling

Matt J. Keeling, published as Matt Keeling, is a British infectious disease modeller, professor at the University of Warwick, and director of the Zeeman Institute (SBIDER).

Matthew Biggerstaff

Matthew Biggerstaff is an American infectious disease epidemiologist at the CDC who leads the Influenza Division's modeling team and helped build US epidemic forecasting systems.

Mauricio L. Barreto

Mauricio L. Barreto is a Brazilian physician and epidemiologist, Professor Emeritus at the Federal University of Bahia, known for work on the social determinants of infectious disease.

Mercedes Pascual

Mercedes Pascual is a Uruguayan theoretical ecologist at New York University who models infectious diseases, known for linking cholera to El Niño and winning the 2014 MacArthur Award.

Neff Walker

Neff Walker is a Senior Scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health known for mathematical modeling of newborn, child, and maternal survival in low- and middle-income countries.

Neil M. Ferguson

Neil M. Ferguson is a mathematical modeller of infectious disease and professor at Imperial College London, known for models of BSE, foot-and-mouth, and COVID-19 that shaped Britain's 2020 lockdown.

Pejman Rohani

Pejman Rohani is a British-trained disease ecologist and mathematical epidemiologist at the University of Georgia, known for work on stochastic epidemic dynamics and pertussis resurgence.

Ramanan Laxminarayan

Ramanan Laxminarayan is an American health economist who studies antimicrobial resistance as an economics problem, leads the One Health Trust, and serves as a senior research scholar at Princeton University.

Roy M. Anderson

Sir Roy Anderson (born 1947) is a British mathematical epidemiologist and parasitologist at Imperial College London, known for the 20/80 rule in disease transmission and pandemic modeling.

Sally Blower

Sally Blower is a mathematical modeller of infectious disease who directs the Center for Biomedical Modeling at UCLA, known for transmission models of HIV, drug resistance, and tuberculosis.

Simon Cauchemez

Simon Cauchemez, born 1978, is an epidemiologist and mathematical modeller of infectious diseases who heads the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases Unit at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, and advised the French government on COVID-19.

Sunetra Gupta

Sunetra Gupta is a Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at the University of Oxford, known for modeling pathogen strains and for co-authoring the Great Barrington Declaration.

Timothy B. Hallett

Timothy B. Hallett is a Professor of Global Health at Imperial College London who models HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria to show how resources can maximize population health.

William Kermack

William Ogilvy Kermack (1898–1970) was a Scottish chemist blinded at 26 by a laboratory explosion who, with A. G. McKendrick, co-authored the 1927 paper founding mathematical epidemic theory.