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Jaume Ferran i Clua
Jaume Ferran i Clua, also written Jaime Ferrán, was a Spanish microbiologist who in 1885 gave the first cholera vaccine to humans during the Valencia epidemic.
Jay P. Sanford
Jay P. Sanford (1928–1996) was an American infectious-disease physician who created The Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy and served as founding dean of the Uniformed Services University.
Jean Hyacinthe Vincent
Jean Hyacinthe Vincent (1862–1950) was a French army physician and bacteriologist who identified the organisms behind Vincent's angina and directed the antityphoid vaccination that nearly eliminated typhoid from French armies in World War I.
Jean Laigret
Jean Laigret (1893–1966) was a French physician at the Pasteur Institute who developed the Dakar vaccine, the first used against yellow fever in mass campaigns.
Jean Orr-Ewing
Jean Orr-Ewing (1897–1944) was a co-worker in Howard Florey's penicillin team at Oxford's Dunn School of Pathology, named in the Nobel Committee's 1945 presentation speech yet left with almost no individual record.
Jean W. Pape
Jean W. Pape, also known as Jean William or Bill Pape, is a Haitian-born physician-scientist who founded GHESKIO in Port-au-Prince in 1982, helping cut Haiti's HIV prevalence.
Jean-Claude Chermann
Jean-Claude Chermann is a French retrovirologist who co-discovered HIV at the Institut Pasteur in 1983, yet was the only co-discoverer excluded from the 2008 Nobel Prize.
Jean-Laurent Casanova
Jean-Laurent Casanova, born in Paris in 1963, is a French immunologist at Rockefeller University who showed that single-gene defects can make healthy children vulnerable to specific infections.
Jean‐Michel Molina
Jean-Michel Molina is a French infectious-diseases physician-researcher, professor at Université Paris Cité and head of infectious diseases at Hôpital Saint-Louis, known for leading the IPERGAY on-demand PrEP trial and the lenacapavir CAPELLA trial.
Jeanne Marrazzo
Jeanne Marrazzo is an American infectious diseases physician-scientist who served as NIAID director from 2023 until her removal in 2025, and became CEO of the Infectious Diseases Society of America in 2026.
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.
Jeffrey V. Lazarus
Jeffrey V. Lazarus is an American epidemiologist who heads the Public Health Liver Group at ISGlobal in Barcelona, known for COVID-19 vaccine surveys and liver disease policy.
Jennifer Bryce
Jennifer Bryce is an international-health researcher and Senior Associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, known for The Lancet's 2003 child survival and 2008 undernutrition series.
Jennifer Keiser
Jennifer Keiser is a Swiss TPH researcher in Basel who leads the Helminth Drug Development unit and became a Full Professor at the University of Basel in 2025.
Jennifer Lorvick
Jennifer Lorvick is an American epidemiologist and senior public health scientist at RTI International, known for research on HIV, hepatitis C, and overdose among people who inject drugs.
Jennifer Nuzzo
Jennifer B. Nuzzo is an American epidemiologist, Professor at Brown University's School of Public Health, and Director of its Pandemic Center, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2024.
Jennifer Rabke Verani
Jennifer Rabke Verani is an American pediatrician and medical epidemiologist at the CDC's Respiratory Diseases Branch in Atlanta, known for pneumococcal vaccine effectiveness studies in Kenya and other countries.
Jens Lundgren
Jens D. Lundgren, born 1960, is a Danish infectious-disease physician-scientist, clinical professor at the University of Copenhagen, who directs CHIP and leads the EuroSIDA HIV cohort.
Jerald Sadoff
Jerald C. Sadoff is an American vaccinologist and physician who spent 22 years at Walter Reed, led vaccine development at Merck and Aeras, and helped develop the Ad26.COV2.S COVID-19 vaccine.
Jeremy Farrar
Jeremy Farrar is a British clinician-scientist in infectious disease and global health who directed the Wellcome Trust from 2013 to 2023 and served as WHO Chief Scientist.
Jerome O. Klein
Jerome O. Klein (1931–2021) was an American pediatric infectious diseases physician-researcher who spent his career at Boston City Hospital and Boston Medical Center, best known for research on otitis media.
Jesse L. Goodman
Jesse L. Goodman is an American infectious disease physician-scientist, former FDA Chief Scientist (2009–2014) who led the H1N1 pandemic response, now a Georgetown professor directing COMPASS.
Jesse Summers
Jesse Summers, born in 1941, is an American virologist who discovered animal hepatitis B-like viruses, including woodchuck hepatitis virus, and showed they replicate DNA by reverse transcription.
Jiang He
Jiang He is a physician, epidemiologist, and human geneticist who chairs epidemiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.
Jill P. Pell
Jill P. Pell is a Scottish epidemiologist and public-health physician who has held the Henry Mechan Professorship of Public Health at the University of Glasgow since 2007.
Joakim Dillner
Joakim Dillner is a Swedish physician-scientist and professor of infectious disease epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet who led the Swedescreen HPV screening trial and founded Sweden's National Cervical Screening Registry.
Joan B. Rose
Joan B. Rose is an American water microbiologist at Michigan State University who pioneered Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment and led the scientific response to the 1993 Milwaukee cryptosporidiosis outbreak.
Joan Ballester
Joan Ballester is a Research Professor at ISGlobal in Barcelona who quantified over 181,000 heat-related deaths in Europe in 2022–2024 and built heat-health early warning systems.
Joel D. Meyers
Joel D. Meyers was an American physician and infectious disease epidemiologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center who identified cytomegalovirus risk factors in bone marrow transplant patients.
Joel G. Breman
Joel G. Breman, also known as Joel Breman, was an American physician-scientist who helped certify smallpox eradication, investigated the first Ebola outbreak in 1976, and led malaria research at the CDC.