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Joel Kaufman

Joel Kaufman, also known as Joel D. Kaufman, is an American physician-epidemiologist at the University of Washington who established that long-term air pollution exposure accelerates atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.

Joel M. Palefsky

Joel M. Palefsky is an infectious diseases physician and professor of medicine at UCSF known for research on HPV and anal cancer prevention in people with HIV.

Joel Schwartz

Joel Schwartz, also known as Joel D. Schwartz, is an environmental epidemiologist at Harvard whose work on air pollution and lead drove tighter U.S. standards.

Johan Maertens

Johan Maertens is a Belgian infectious-diseases physician-scientist at KU Leuven and UZ Leuven who studies invasive fungal disease and febrile neutropenia in hematologic cancer patients.

Johan P. Mackenbach

Johan P. Mackenbach is a Dutch physician-epidemiologist and Professor Emeritus of Public Health at Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, known for measuring and explaining socioeconomic inequalities in health across Europe.

John A. Jernigan

John A. Jernigan, also published as John Jernigan, is an American infectious diseases physician and epidemiologist directing CDC research on healthcare-associated infections and antibiotic resistance.

John C. Ayres

John C. Ayres, M.D., was an American epidemiologist with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health who published on tularemia, encephalitis, and rickettsialpox from 1948 to 1951.

John C. Cassel

John C. Cassel (1921–1976) was a South African-born epidemiologist, a pioneer of social epidemiology who led the University of North Carolina's epidemiology department from 1958.

John D. Clemens

John D. Clemens is an American infectious disease epidemiologist whose Bangladesh field trials established oral cholera vaccines; he was founding Director General of the International Vaccine Institute and developed Shanchol.

John D. Grabenstein

John D. Grabenstein is an American vaccinologist, pharmacist, and epidemiologist who directed the Military Vaccine Agency, led medical affairs at Merck Vaccines, and won the 2020 Remington Honor Medal.

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 G. Bartlett

John G. Bartlett (1937–2021) was an American infectious-disease physician who led Johns Hopkins' division from 1980 to 2006 and identified Clostridium difficile as the cause of antibiotic-associated colitis.

John H. Beigel

John H. Beigel is a physician-scientist and Associate Director for Clinical Research at NIAID in Bethesda, Maryland, known for leading the government's pivotal Covid-19 treatment trials.

John H. Dingle

John H. Dingle (1908–1973) was an American epidemiologist who led the Cleveland Family Study of 25,000 illnesses and won the 1950 Lasker Award for respiratory-disease research.

John Kaldor

John Kaldor is an Australian infectious-diseases epidemiologist and Scientia Professor at UNSW Sydney's Kirby Institute who helped establish national HIV surveillance and now leads work on neglected tropical diseases.

John L. Sever

John L. Sever (J. L. Sever) was an American virologist and epidemiologist who led NIH's Infectious Diseases Branch and set Rotary on its polio eradication campaign in 1979.

John N. Nkengasong

John N. Nkengasong is a Cameroonian-born virologist who served as the first Director of the Africa CDC from 2017 to 2022, then led PEPFAR as US Global AIDS Coordinator.

John P. DeVincenzo

John P. DeVincenzo, also known as John DeVincenzo, is an American pediatric infectious-diseases physician-scientist at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis known for RSV antiviral research.

John P. Utz

John P. Utz, known as Jack Utz, was an American infectious-diseases physician and medical mycologist who led NIH's infectious disease service and later served as dean of Georgetown's medical school.

John Peters (epidemiologist)

John M. Peters (1935–2010) was an American epidemiologist at the University of Southern California who created the Children's Health Study and showed that air pollution slows children's lung growth.

John R. Paul

John Rodman Paul (1893–1971) was an American virologist and epidemiologist who spent his career at Yale, researched poliomyelitis for three decades, and founded the field of clinical epidemiology.

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.

John T. Schiller

John T. Schiller is an American virologist at the National Cancer Institute who, with Douglas Lowy, developed the virus-like particle technology behind the HPV vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix.

John W. Farquhar

John W. "Jack" Farquhar (1927–2018) was a Canadian-born American physician and Stanford professor, a National Academy of Medicine member who pioneered communitywide cardiovascular prevention research.

John-Arne Røttingen

John-Arne Røttingen is a Norwegian physician, epidemiologist, and health diplomat who has served as chief executive of Wellcome since January 2024. He led the WHO Solidarity Trial for Covid-19 and helped found CEPI.

Joia Mukherjee

Joia Mukherjee is an American physician who joined Partners In Health as Chief Medical Officer in 2000, treating HIV and tuberculosis in Haiti and other poor countries.

Jonathan A C Sterne

Jonathan A C Sterne, known as Jonathan Sterne, is a British epidemiologist and medical statistician, a professor at the University of Bristol known for the ROBINS-I tool.

Jonathan M. Mann

Jonathan M. Mann (1947–1998) was an American physician and epidemiologist who founded the WHO Global Programme on AIDS, built the health-and-human-rights framework, and died in the 1998 crash of Swissair Flight 111 off Nova Scotia.

Jonathan M. Samet

Jonathan M. Samet is an American pulmonary physician and epidemiologist whose research on air pollution, tobacco smoke, and radon has shaped public health regulation and tobacco controls.

Jordan W. Tappero

Jordan W. Tappero is an American physician and epidemiologist who led CDC responses to the Haiti cholera and West African Ebola epidemics before joining the Gates Foundation in 2018.