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

Paul A. Volberding

Paul A. Volberding is an American physician-scientist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for building the first dedicated AIDS clinic and defining when to start HIV therapy.

Paul B. Beeson (Paul Bruce Beeson) was an American physician and infectious-disease researcher who identified endogenous pyrogen, the fever-producing substance later identified as interleukin-1, and chaired medicine departments at Emory, Yale, and Oxford.

Paul E. Sax

Paul E. Sax is an American infectious-diseases physician and HIV researcher who is Clinical Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

Sep 20, 2026

Paul Elliott (physician-epidemiologist)

Paul Elliott is a British physician-epidemiologist, Professor at Imperial College London, who directs the REACT Covid-19 surveillance program tracking infection in over 3 million people in England.

Paul Farmer

Paul Edward Farmer (1959–2022), American physician and medical anthropologist, co-founder of Partners In Health (Zanmi Lasante) in Haiti, pioneer of structural violence analysis, MDR-TB and HIV treatment equity, and chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda.

Paul Frosch

Paul Frosch (1860–1928) was a German bacteriologist who, with Friedrich Loeffler, proved in 1898 that foot-and-mouth disease is caused by a filter-passing virus, the first animal disease shown viral.

Paul J. Wiesner

Paul J. Wiesner (1940–2025) was an American physician and Public Health Service officer whose CDC gonorrhea research shaped national treatment policy from the 1970s onward.

Paul Spiegel

Paul B. Spiegel is a Canadian physician and medical epidemiologist who directs the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health and is known for research on refugee and displacement health.

Paul Uhlenhuth

Paul Uhlenhuth (1870–1957) was a German bacteriologist and immunologist who developed the precipitin test for distinguishing human from animal blood, the first reliable forensic species test, and later contributed to arsenical chemotherapy for syphilis.

Paul Wilkinson (epidemiologist)

Paul Wilkinson was a British environmental epidemiologist and professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine who researched climate change and air pollution.

Paula Braveman

Paula A. Braveman is an American physician and social epidemiologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, known for defining and measuring health disparities and health equity.

Pedro L. Alonso

Pedro L. Alonso is a Spanish physician and epidemiologist who led the RTS,S malaria vaccine trials and directed the WHO Global Malaria Programme from 2014 to 2022.

Pejman Rohani

Pejman Rohani is a British-trained disease ecologist and mathematical epidemiologist at the University of Georgia, known for work on stochastic epidemic dynamics and pertussis resurgence.

Pekka Puska

Pekka Puska is a Finnish public health physician and epidemiologist who directed the North Karelia Project from 1972 and later led noncommunicable disease prevention at the World Health Organization.

Percy W. Clutterbuck

Percy W. Clutterbuck, born Percival Walter Clutterbuck (1897–1938), was an English biochemist at the University of London who made the first published attempt to isolate penicillin.

Peter Aaby

Peter Aaby is a Danish epidemiologist who founded the Bandim Health Project in Guinea-Bissau in 1978 and proposed that vaccines have non-specific effects on child survival.

Peter Daszak

Peter Daszak, British disease ecologist, PhD University of East London 1993; former president of EcoHealth Alliance, now leads Nature Health Global; known for chytridiomycosis research, bat coronavirus NIH grants, WHO COVID origins probe, and 2025 HHS debarment.

Peter F. Barnes

Peter F. Barnes is an American physician-scientist in infectious diseases known for tuberculosis research, including documenting the HIV-driven resurgence of tuberculosis and showing it spread mainly at Los Angeles homeless shelters.

Peter G. Pappas

Peter G. Pappas is an infectious-diseases physician and medical mycology researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, known for leading the IDSA candidiasis guidelines and the Mycoses Study Group.

Peter Godfrey‐Faussett

Peter Godfrey-Faussett is an infectious-diseases physician-scientist and Emeritus Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, known for tuberculosis and HIV research in Zambia and South Africa.

Peter Hotez

Peter J. Hotez (born 1958) is an American vaccine scientist and pediatrician who leads the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.

Peter K. Olitsky

Peter K. Olitsky (Peter Kosciusko Olitsky, 1886–1964) was an American virologist at the Rockefeller Institute who studied epidemic diseases and, with Albert Sabin, grew polio virus in human embryonic brain tissue in 1936.

Peter M. Biggs

Peter M. Biggs (Peter Martin Biggs) was an English veterinary virologist who established the cause of Marek's disease and led development of the first vaccine against a cancer.

Peter M. Small

Peter M. Small is an American infectious-disease physician-scientist who established the molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis at UCSF and Stanford, then designed and ran the Gates Foundation's global tuberculosis program.

Peter M. Strebel

Peter M. Strebel is a South African-trained physician-epidemiologist who led measles and rubella control at the CDC, WHO in Geneva, and Gavi, and is now a consultant in Geneva.

Peter Mühlens

Peter Mühlens (1874–1943) was a German tropical physician and hygienist who directed the Hamburg tropical institute from 1933 and introduced major antiparasitic drugs into practice.

Peter Openshaw (immunologist)

Peter Openshaw is a British respiratory physician and mucosal immunologist, Professor of Experimental Medicine at Imperial College London, known for his work on RSV and influenza immunity.

Sep 20, 2026

Peter Palese

Peter Palese is an American virologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai who pioneered influenza reverse genetics and pursues a universal flu vaccine.

Peter Piot

Peter Piot, born 1949 in Louvain, Belgium, is a physician-scientist who co-discovered the Ebola virus in 1976, documented heterosexual AIDS in Africa, and served as founding Executive Director of UNAIDS from 1995 to 2008.