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Kirk R. Smith
Kirk R. Smith (1947–2020) was an American environmental health scientist at UC Berkeley who established household air pollution from cooking smoke as a major global health risk.
Kirsten E. Lyke
Kirsten E. Lyke is an American physician-scientist and professor at the University of Maryland's Center for Vaccine Development, known for human challenge trials in malaria and dengue.
Kitasato Shibasaburō
Kitasato Shibasaburō (北里柴三郎) was a Japanese bacteriologist who first isolated the tetanus bacillus in pure culture, co-authored the 1890 antitoxin paper founding serum therapy, and built Japan's medical research institutions.
Kiyoshi Shiga
Kiyoshi Shiga (志賀潔) was a Japanese bacteriologist who identified the dysentery bacillus during Tokyo's deadly 1897 epidemic, honored in the names Shigella and Shiga toxin.
Klim McPherson
Klim McPherson, born 1941, is a British epidemiologist and visiting professor at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences elected in 1998.
Kristian Andersen
Kristian G. Andersen is a Danish-born immunologist and genomicist at Scripps Research who studies how emerging viruses like SARS-CoV-2, Zika, and Ebola emerge and spread.
Kristian R. Olson
Kristian R. Olson is an American internist and pediatrician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for founding CAMTech and co-inventing the AIR newborn resuscitator.
Kristie L. Ebi
Kristie L. Ebi is an epidemiologist and University of Washington professor who has worked on climate change and health for over 30 years, including leading IPCC assessments.
Kristin L. Nichol
Kristin L. Nichol is an American physician-epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota and Minneapolis VA whose studies quantified how influenza vaccination reduces hospitalizations and deaths in elderly people.
Kunitada Shimotohno
Kunitada Shimotohno (下遠野 邦忠) is a Japanese molecular biologist whose Tokyo laboratory cloned the Japanese hepatitis C virus genome in 1990, work cited in the 2020 Nobel Prize background.
L. Clifford McDonald
L. Clifford McDonald is an American infectious diseases physician and researcher at the CDC, known for his work on the epidemiology and prevention of Clostridioides difficile infection.
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.
Lalit Dandona
Lalit Dandona is an Indian physician-scientist in population health metrics, a professor at IHME and the Public Health Foundation of India, and director of the India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative.
Lalita Ramakrishnan
Lalita Ramakrishnan is an Indian-born physician-scientist, Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the University of Cambridge, known for pioneering the zebrafish model of tuberculosis and winning the 2024 Robert Koch Prize.
Larry M. Baddour
Larry M. Baddour is an American infectious-diseases physician, professor emeritus of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for research on infective endocarditis and device infections.
Laura A. Koutsky
Laura A. Koutsky is an American epidemiologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, known for HPV research and as principal investigator of the first HPV vaccine trials.
Laura Dwyer‐Lindgren
Laura Dwyer-Lindgren is a health metrics researcher at the University of Washington's IHME who studies US disease burden and life expectancy disparities, known for the 2024 Ten Americas analysis.
Laura M. Gottlieb
Laura M. Gottlieb is an American family physician and researcher, Professor of Family and Community Medicine at UCSF, founding director of SIREN, and a 2019 National Academy of Medicine member.
Lauri E. Markowitz
Lauri E. Markowitz is an American physician and epidemiologist who joined the CDC in 1983, studied measles outbreaks, and led HPV vaccine surveillance showing large infection declines.
Leo James
Leo C. James is a British molecular biologist and virologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, known for discovering TRIM21 and intracellular antibody immunity.
Leonard Rogers
Sir Leonard Rogers (1868–1962) was a British parasitologist and tropical physician in the Indian Medical Service who introduced emetine for amoebic dysentery and antimony for kala-azar.
Leontine Alkema
Leontine Alkema is a Dutch biostatistician and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who develops Bayesian models used by UN agencies to estimate stillbirths and maternal mortality worldwide.
Leor Weinberger
Leor Weinberger is an American virologist at the Gladstone Institutes and UCSF who created therapeutic interfering particles, engineered viral parasites that spread like the virus they treat.
Lin-Fa Wang
Lin-Fa Wang (王林发) is a Singapore-based virologist at Duke-NUS Medical School known for identifying bats as the SARS virus's natural host and for bat immunology research.
Linda Birnbaum
Linda Birnbaum is an American toxicologist known for research on dioxins and endocrine-disrupting chemicals who led NIEHS and the National Toxicology Program from 2009 to 2019.
Linda-Gail Bekker
Linda-Gail Bekker is a South African physician-scientist at the University of Cape Town who directs the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre and led the PURPOSE 1 lenacapavir trial.
Lindsay E. Nicolle
Lindsay E. Nicolle is a Canadian infectious diseases physician at the University of Manitoba whose research established that asymptomatic bacteriuria in the elderly should not be treated.
Lindsey R. Baden
Lindsey R. Baden is an American infectious disease physician-scientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and a deputy editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.
Lisa A. Jackson
Lisa A. Jackson, also known as Lisa Jackson, is an American vaccine epidemiologist at Kaiser Permanente Washington who led the first COVID-19 vaccine trial in March 2020.
Loren G. Miller
Loren G. Miller is an American infectious-diseases physician-researcher, Professor of Medicine at UCLA and Chief of Adult Infectious Diseases at Harbor-UCLA, known for MRSA decolonization trials.