Researchers in infectious disease, epidemiology, vaccines, and global health

Nicholas C. Grassly

Nicholas C. Grassly is a professor of vaccine epidemiology at Imperial College London whose polio vaccine research shaped the Global Polio Eradication Initiative; he advised the UK government on COVID-19 testing.

Nicholas Day (physician)

Nicholas P. J. Day is a British clinical tropical-medicine researcher, Professor of Tropical Medicine at Oxford and director of the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Bangkok.

Nicholas J Kassebaum

Nicholas J Kassebaum, also known as Nicholas Kassebaum, is an anesthesiologist at the University of Washington who studies the global burden of disease in mothers, newborns, and children.

Nicholas J. White

Nicholas J. White (1951–2026) was a British physician-scientist in tropical medicine, based in Bangkok, whose clinical trials established artemisinin therapy as the standard treatment for falciparum malaria.

Sep 17, 2026

Nicholas John White

Sir Nicholas John White (1951–2026) was a British professor of tropical medicine at Mahidol University and Oxford whose work established artemisinin-based combination therapy as the worldwide malaria standard.

Nicholas Wald

Sir Nicholas John Wald, born 1944, is a British physician and epidemiologist who pioneered antenatal screening, showed folic acid prevents neural tube defects, and co-invented the Polypill.

Nick Watts

Nick Watts is an Australian- and UK-licensed medical doctor who directs the Centre for Sustainable Medicine at NUS, after serving as NHS England's first Chief Sustainability Officer.

Nicola Low

Nicola Low is a British infectious disease epidemiologist, professor at the University of Bern since 2010, known for WHO estimates of curable STIs and chlamydia screening research.

Nicola P. Klein

Nicola P. Klein is an American vaccine researcher who directs the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center in Oakland, California, and studies vaccine effectiveness and safety.

Nina Agabian

Nina Agabian is a molecular parasitologist and Professor Emeritus of Cell and Tissue Biology at UCSF, known for 1984 work establishing trans-splicing in trypanosomes and later Candida albicans genome studies.

Sep 17, 2026

Noel S. Weiss

Noel S. Weiss is an American cancer epidemiologist and Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology at the University of Washington, known for landmark work on estrogen therapy and cancer screening.

Norbert Hirschhorn

Norbert Hirschhorn, born 1938, is an American physician-scientist who helped develop oral rehydration therapy for cholera, an innovation estimated to have saved more than 50 million lives.

Norbert Pardi

Norbert Pardi is a Hungarian biochemist and mRNA vaccine researcher, Associate Professor of Microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania, known for the nucleoside-modified mRNA lipid nanoparticle vaccine platform.

Norman Heatley

Norman George Heatley was a British biochemist at Oxford who devised the assay, extraction, and culture methods that made penicillin mass production possible in 1940–41.

Nubia Muñoz

Nubia Muñoz (Nubia Muñoz Calero) is a Colombian epidemiologist whose international case-control studies established HPV as the necessary cause of cervical cancer, the basis for HPV vaccines and global prevention.

Nuno Faria

Nuno R. Faria is a Portuguese virus genomic epidemiologist at Imperial College London, known for genomic studies of HIV-1 and real-time Zika analysis in Brazil.

Octave Gengou

Octave Gengou (1875–1957) was a Belgian bacteriologist who co-discovered the whooping-cough bacillus with Jules Bordet in 1906 and developed the first pertussis vaccine in 1912.

Oliver A. Cornely

Oliver A. Cornely (Oliver Andreas Cornely) is a German infectious diseases physician-scientist at University Hospital Cologne who led the 2007 posaconazole prophylaxis trial and the 2019 global mucormycosis guideline.

Oliver Pybus

Oliver Pybus is a British biologist at Oxford known for founding phylodynamics, the study of pathogen evolution and ecology, and elected a Royal Society Fellow in 2022.

Olivia Affuso

Olivia Affuso is an American physical activity epidemiologist who studies preventing obesity and chronic disease through physical activity, and a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine.

Olivier Hermine

Olivier Hermine (born 1962) is a French hematologist, professor at Université Paris Cité and head of clinical hematology at the Hôpital Necker in Paris, known for mastocytosis research.

Ooi Eng Eong

Ooi Eng Eong, also published as Eng Eong Ooi, is a Singapore-based vaccinologist and physician-scientist at Duke-NUS Medical School known for dengue immunology and for leading Singapore's COVID-19 vaccine collaboration with Arcturus Therapeutics.

P. Helena Mäkelä

P. Helena Mäkelä, born Pirjo Helena Mäkelä (1930–2011), was a Finnish microbiologist at the National Public Health Institute whose field trials established Hib conjugate vaccines for infants.

Pardis C. Sabeti

Pardis C. Sabeti, also known as Pardis Sabeti, is an Iranian-born American computational geneticist and physician-scientist at the Broad Institute and Harvard, known for genomic work on Ebola and Lassa.

Sep 17, 2026

Patricia A. Buffler

Patricia A. Buffler (1938–2013) was an American epidemiologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who led major studies of childhood leukemia and served as dean of its School of Public Health.

Patrick Laidlaw

Sir Patrick Playfair Laidlaw, known as Patrick Laidlaw, was a British virologist at the National Institute for Medical Research who led the 1933 first isolation of human influenza virus.

Patrick Manson

Patrick Manson was a Scottish parasitologist who showed in 1878 that mosquitoes transmit filarial worms, earning the title Father of Tropical Medicine at the 1913 London congress.

Patrizia Farci

Patrizia Farci is an Italian physician-scientist who studies viral hepatitis, trained at the University of Cagliari, and has led the Hepatic Pathogenesis Section at NIH's NIAID since 2010.

Paul A. Blake

Paul A. Blake, also known as Paul Blake, is an infectious-disease epidemiologist at the CDC in Atlanta, known for cholera and foodborne-outbreak investigations from 1977 onward.