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Hélène Carabin
Hélène Carabin is a Canadian veterinary epidemiologist at Université de Montréal who studies zoonotic diseases and was elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2023.
Henri Carré
Henri Carré (1870–1938) was a French veterinarian who showed in 1905 that the disease of young dogs is caused by a filterable virus, known in French as the maladie de Carré.
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.
Henry Edward Shortt
Henry Edward Shortt (1887–1987) was a British protozoologist and Indian Medical Service colonel who proved in 1948, with Cyril Garnham, that malaria parasites develop first in the liver.
Henry F. Chambers
Henry F. Chambers, known as Chip, is an American infectious-diseases physician-researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, known for work on Staphylococcus aureus, antimicrobial resistance, and infective endocarditis.
Henry Masur
Henry Masur is an American infectious disease physician who wrote one of the first papers describing AIDS and leads critical care medicine at the NIH Clinical Center.
Henry R. Shinefield
Henry R. Shinefield (born 1925) is an American pediatrician and vaccine researcher who was chief of pediatrics at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco and co-developed its Vaccine Study Center.
Herbert L. DuPont
Herbert L. DuPont is an American infectious disease physician-scientist at UTHealth Houston whose research on travelers' diarrhea, E. coli, and Cryptosporidium shaped diarrheal disease treatment worldwide.
Herman A. Tyroler
Herman Alfred (Al) Tyroler was an American physician and epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina, a pioneer of cardiovascular disease epidemiology elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1980.
Hermann Mooser
Hermann Mooser (1891–1971) was a Swiss physician and microbiologist who first distinguished murine typhus from epidemic typhus, established rats as its reservoir, and gave his name to the Neill–Mooser reaction.
Hilary Koprowski
Hilary Koprowski (1916–2013) was a Polish-born American virologist who developed the first oral polio vaccine, trialed in 1950, and the oral rabies vaccine, directing The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia from 1957 to 1991.
Hiroaki Mitsuya
Hiroaki Mitsuya (満屋裕明) is a Japanese physician-scientist who identified AZT's anti-HIV activity, developed didanosine, zalcitabine, and darunavir, and won the 2015 Japan Academy Prize.
Horace M. Gezon
Horace M. Gezon was an American epidemiologist and professor at the University of Pittsburgh who traced newborn nursery infection outbreaks and ran controlled hexachlorophene bathing trials in infants.
Howard Frumkin
Howard Frumkin is an American physician-epidemiologist, dean of the University of Washington School of Public Health from 2010 to 2016 and CDC environmental health director, known for planetary health research.
Howard M. Heller
Howard M. Heller is an American infectious disease physician and assistant professor at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for HIV/AIDS and tick-borne disease work.
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.
Howard Taylor Ricketts
Howard Taylor Ricketts was an American pathologist at the University of Chicago who proved wood ticks transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever; the genus Rickettsia is named for him.
Ibrahim Abubakar
Ibrahim Abubakar is a Nigerian-born British infectious disease epidemiologist at University College London, known for tuberculosis research and the UCL–Lancet Commission on Migration and Health.
Ida M. Onorato
Ida M. Onorato is an American physician-epidemiologist at the CDC's Division of Tuberculosis Elimination in Atlanta, known for 1990s research on tuberculosis among foreign-born persons.
Igho Ofotokun
Igho Ofotokun, also known as Ighovwerha Ofotokun, is an American physician-scientist in infectious diseases whose ACTG 5257 trial shaped US HIV treatment guidelines; he was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.
Igor Rudan
Igor Rudan is a Croatian physician-scientist, Professor of International Health and Molecular Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, known for the CHNRI method of setting health research priorities.
Ingmar Hoerr
Ingmar Hoerr, born 1968, is a German biologist and entrepreneur who showed injected mRNA can trigger immune responses and co-founded CureVac in Tübingen in 2000.
Isao Arita
Isao Arita, born 1926, is a Japanese virologist who led the WHO Smallpox Eradication Unit from 1977, developed its surveillance-and-containment system, and shared the 1988 Japan Prize for eradicating smallpox.
Issam Raad
Issam I. Raad is an infectious-disease physician-scientist who chairs and teaches at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, best known for antibiotic-coated central venous catheters the CDC recommends for patients at high risk of bloodstream infections.
J. Anthony G. Scott
J. Anthony G. Scott, full name John Anthony Gerard Scott, is a clinician and epidemiologist, Professor of Vaccine Epidemiology at LSHTM, known for pneumococcal disease research in Kilifi, Kenya.
J. Jaime Miranda
J. Jaime Miranda, also known as Jaime Miranda, is a Peruvian epidemiologist and Professor and Head of School at the University of Sydney's School of Public Health.
J. Ties Boerma
J. Ties Boerma is a Dutch-born public health researcher who directed WHO health statistics for 14 years and holds a Canada Research Chair at the University of Manitoba.
J.N. Morris
J.N. Morris, born Jeremiah Noah Morris and known as Jerry Morris, was a British physician and epidemiologist whose 1953 London busmen study first linked physical activity to heart disease.
Jaap Goudsmit
Jaap Goudsmit, born 1951 in Amsterdam, is a Dutch virologist and epidemiologist known for AIDS research in the Amsterdam cohort, broadly neutralizing influenza antibodies, and leadership at Crucell and Harvard.
Jack D. Sobel
Jack D. Sobel, known as Jack Sobel, is a South African–trained American infectious-diseases physician who has led the infectious-diseases division at Wayne State University in Detroit since 1985.