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Marian Betz

Marian Betz is an American emergency physician and injury-prevention researcher at the University of Colorado, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.

Mario Sims

Mario Sims is an American social epidemiologist and medical sociologist, a distinguished professor at UC Riverside elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022.

Mario Spagnuolo

Mario Spagnuolo was an American public health researcher at New York University's School of Medicine and Irvington House, known for his 1971 study of rheumatic fever recurrence after streptococcal infections.

Marissa Zwald

Marissa L. Zwald is an American epidemiologist at the CDC whose research tracks mental health, substance use, suicide, and firearm-injury trends using near-real-time emergency care data.

Mark L. Rosenberg

Mark L. Rosenberg (born 1945) is an American physician and public health researcher who founded the CDC's injury prevention center and led The Task Force for Global Health.

Markus Loeffler

Markus Loeffler is a German physician-scientist who directed the Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology at Leipzig University from 1994 to 2023, known for biometric design and analysis of large German cancer trials.

Mary Travis Bassett

Mary Travis Bassett is an American physician and public health researcher who led New York City's health department from 2014 to 2018 and became New York State health commissioner in 2021.

Matthew J. Miller

Matthew J. Miller, also known as Matthew Jason Miller, is an American epidemiologist and physician at Northeastern University whose research links household firearm access to suicide risk.

Matthew Maenner

Matthew Maenner is a CDC epidemiologist who studies autism spectrum disorder, helped develop a faster ADDM prevalence method, and estimated about 5.4 million US adults with autism.

Maureen M. Henderson

Maureen M. Henderson, also known as Maureen McGrath Henderson, was a British-born epidemiologist who founded Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Cancer Prevention Research Program in 1983.

Meir J. Stampfer

Meir J. Stampfer is an American physician-epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health known for large cohort studies of diet, hormones, and chronic disease.

Mervyn Susser

Mervyn Susser (1921–2014) was a South African-born epidemiologist at Columbia University known for linking disease to social conditions and for Dutch Hunger Winter famine studies.

Michael H. Alderman

Michael H. Alderman, born 1936, is an American physician and epidemiologist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, known for hypertension research and for challenging public health campaigns to lower dietary salt.

Michael Marmot

Sir Michael Marmot, born 1945, is a British epidemiologist at University College London known for the Whitehall studies, the social gradient, and the 2010 Marmot Review.

Michele Heisler

Michele Heisler is an American physician-investigator at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022 for research on health, human rights, and health equity.

Miguel A. Hernán

Miguel A. Hernán is a physician-epidemiologist and biostatistician, Kolokotrones Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, known for target trial emulation and the textbook Causal Inference: What If.

Miguel Ángel Martínez‐González

Miguel Ángel Martínez-González, born 1957, is a Spanish physician and epidemiologist at the University of Navarra and Harvard, known for the PREDIMED Mediterranean diet trial.

Mika Kivimäki

Mika Kivimäki is a Finnish epidemiologist who is Professor and Chair of Social Epidemiology at University College London, known for meta-analyses of work stress, long working hours, and heart disease.

Mohammed K. Ali

Mohammed K. Ali is an Emory University physician-epidemiologist and National Academy of Medicine member who researches diabetes prevention and care in low- and middle-income countries.

Monica Elizabeth Peek

Monica Elizabeth Peek is an American general internist and health equity researcher at the University of Chicago, known for research on diabetes disparities and structural racism in medical care.

Monika Kumari Goyal

Monika Kumari Goyal is an American pediatric emergency medicine physician and health equity researcher at Children's National Hospital, elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Morten Frisch

Morten Frisch is a Danish epidemiologist and physician at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, known for linking sexual behavior, infection, and cancer, including a 1997 anal cancer study.

Naeemah Abrahams

Naeemah Abrahams is a South African public health researcher who leads the Gender and Health Research Unit of the South African Medical Research Council, known for national femicide studies.

Noel S. Weiss

Noel S. Weiss is an American cancer epidemiologist and Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology at the University of Washington, known for landmark work on estrogen therapy and cancer screening.

Nubia Muñoz

Nubia Muñoz (Nubia Muñoz Calero) is a Colombian epidemiologist whose international case-control studies established HPV as the necessary cause of cervical cancer, the basis for HPV vaccines and global prevention.

Olivia Affuso

Olivia Affuso is an American physical activity epidemiologist who studies preventing obesity and chronic disease through physical activity, and a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine.

Patricia A. Buffler

Patricia A. Buffler (1938–2013) was an American epidemiologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who led major studies of childhood leukemia and served as dean of its School of Public Health.

Paula Braveman

Paula A. Braveman is an American physician and social epidemiologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, known for defining and measuring health disparities and health equity.

Pekka Puska

Pekka Puska is a Finnish public health physician and epidemiologist who directed the North Karelia Project from 1972 and later led noncommunicable disease prevention at the World Health Organization.

Philip Cole

Philip Cole is an American epidemiologist at Harvard whose 1971 study established smoking as a cause of bladder cancer and who later argued for tobacco harm reduction.