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Marc Lipsitch

Marc Lipsitch is an infectious disease epidemiologist and mathematical modeler who joined Stanford University in 2026 after 25 years at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Marcel Behr

Marcel Behr is a Canadian clinician-scientist and Full Professor at McGill University in Montreal who studies tuberculosis genomics, evolution, and epidemiology, and directs McGill's Infectious Diseases Division.

Marcel Tanner

Marcel Tanner is a Swiss epidemiologist and public-health scientist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Basel, who led the Swiss Tropical Institute from 1997 to 2015.

Marcia L. Stefanick

Marcia L. Stefanick is an American physiologist and professor of medicine at Stanford who studies chronic disease prevention and led the Women's Health Initiative hormone-therapy trials.

Margaret A. Chesney

Margaret A. Chesney is an American psychologist and epidemiologist, Professor Emerita at UCSF and a National Academy of Medicine member, known for behavioral research on HIV/AIDS and cardiovascular disease.

Margaret A. Fischl

Margaret A. Fischl is an American infectious-diseases physician at the University of Miami who led the 1987 AZT trial producing the first approved HIV drug.

Margaret A. Honein

Margaret A. Honein, known as Peggy Honein, is an American epidemiologist directing a CDC infectious disease division, with leadership roles in the H1N1, Zika, and COVID-19 responses.

Margaret Bourdeaux

Margaret Bourdeaux is an American physician and health-security researcher who leads Harvard Medical School's Program in Global Public Policy and studies health systems in conflict-affected states.

Margaret Hamburg

Margaret (Peggy) Hamburg is an American physician and public health leader who served as the 21st FDA commissioner from 2009 to 2015, and earlier as New York City health commissioner.

Margaret Jennings (bacteriologist)

Margaret Jennings (1904–1994) was a British physician and bacteriologist who carried out the biological testing and animal experiments in the Oxford penicillin project, and became Howard Florey's second wife in 1967.

Margherita R. Fontana

Margherita R. Fontana is a dental caries researcher who chairs Cariology, Restorative Sciences, and Endodontics at the University of Michigan and received a 2012 Presidential Early Career Award.

Maria J. Wawer

Maria J. Wawer is an American physician-epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins who co-founded the Rakai Health Sciences Program in Uganda and led trials showing male circumcision reduces HIV risk.

Maria Van Kerkhove

Maria Van Kerkhove is an American infectious disease epidemiologist who served as the World Health Organization's technical lead for COVID-19, becoming one of the pandemic's most recognizable scientists.

Maria Zambon

Maria Zambon is a British clinical virologist who directs reference microbiology and respiratory virus work at the UK Health Security Agency, leading its National Influenza Centre.

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.

Marie R. Griffin

Marie R. Griffin, also known as Marie Griffin, is an American physician and epidemiologist at Vanderbilt whose studies of influenza and pneumococcal vaccines shaped United States vaccine policy.

Marie‐Louise Newell

Marie-Louise Newell is an infectious disease epidemiologist whose research on HIV in pregnancy and childhood, especially mother-to-child transmission, informed policies credited with reducing vertically acquired HIV infection.

Mario Raviǵlione

Mario Raviǵlione, also known as Mario C. Raviglione, is an Italian physician who directed the WHO Global Tuberculosis Programme from 2003 to 2017, developing the End TB Strategy.

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.

Marion Koopmans

Marion Koopmans is a Dutch public health virologist at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, known for her work on noroviruses, avian influenza outbreaks, and SARS-CoV-2 surveillance and origins research.

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 A. Wainberg

Mark A. Wainberg (1945–2017) was a Canadian virologist at McGill University and the first in Canada to work directly on HIV, best known for identifying the antiretroviral drug 3TC (lamivudine) in 1989.

Mark B. Feinberg

Mark B. Feinberg is an American physician-scientist who has led the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative as president and CEO since 2015, after 11 years at Merck Vaccines.

Mark C. Steinhoff

Mark C. Steinhoff was an American physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins and Cincinnati Children's whose trials showed flu vaccination during pregnancy protects both mother and newborn.

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.

Mark S. Klempner

Mark S. Klempner is an American infectious diseases physician-researcher who led the 2001 trials showing prolonged antibiotics do not relieve persistent Lyme symptoms, and later directed MassBiologics.

Mark Tenforde

Mark Tenforde is an epidemiologist with the CDC COVID-19 Response Team in Atlanta, known for vaccine effectiveness research on COVID-19, influenza, and RSV, and earlier HIV work in Africa.

Mark W. Tyndall

Mark W. Tyndall is a Canadian physician-epidemiologist and UBC professor who led the scientific evaluation of Insite, North America's first supervised injection facility, and advocates safe supply opioids.

Mark Woolhouse

Mark E. J. Woolhouse is an infectious disease epidemiologist and professor at the University of Edinburgh, known for work on schistosomiasis, zoonotic emerging infections, and the UK's COVID-19 response.