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Peter Simmonds
Peter Simmonds is a virologist known for his work on the evolution and taxonomy of human viruses, especially hepatitis C virus, and is now Visiting Professor at the University of Turku.
Peter W. Gething
Peter W. Gething is an Australian-based epidemiologist and geospatial modeller of malaria who co-heads the Malaria Atlas Project and is a professor at Curtin University and The Kids Research Institute Australia in Perth.
Philip Bejon
Philip Bejon is a clinician scientist and Oxford professor of tropical medicine known for malaria vaccine trials, including RTS,S, and spatial epidemiology of malaria in coastal Kenya.
Philip Cole
Philip Cole is an American epidemiologist at Harvard whose 1971 study established smoking as a cause of bladder cancer and who later argued for tobacco harm reduction.
Philip J. Landrigan
Philip J. Landrigan is an American pediatrician and epidemiologist whose El Paso lead studies helped remove lead from gasoline and shaped children's environmental health policy.
Philip R. Krause
Philip R. Krause is an American physician-scientist in vaccinology and virology who served at the FDA from 1991 to 2021, helping supervise COVID-19 vaccine review.
Philippe Van de Perre
Philippe Van de Perre, born 1955, is a French physician-scientist in bacteriology and virology who in 1991 first demonstrated that HIV is transmitted from mother to child through breastfeeding.
Phillip I. Tarr
Phillip I. Tarr is an American pediatric infectious-disease physician-scientist at Washington University School of Medicine, known for research on Shiga toxin–producing E. coli and hemolytic-uremic syndrome.
Phyllis J. Kanki
Phyllis J. Kanki is a virologist and Mary Woodard Lasker Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, known for characterizing HIV-2 in Senegal.
Pierre Tiollais
Pierre Tiollais (1934–2024) was a French physician and molecular biologist at the Institut Pasteur who sequenced the hepatitis B virus genome and developed a recombinant vaccine.
Pieter De Somer
Pieter De Somer was a Belgian physician and biologist who founded the Rega Institute in Leuven and served as the first lay rector of KU Leuven.
Placide Mbala‐Kingebeni
Placide Mbala-Kingebeni, also published as Placide Mbala, is a Congolese physician and virologist who directs research at INRB in Kinshasa and identified mpox clade Ib in 2024.
Porter W Anderson, Jr.
Porter W Anderson, Jr. is an American microbiologist who developed the Hib conjugate vaccine, credited with cutting US Hib disease by 99 percent; he won the 1996 Lasker Award.
Prabhat Jha (Canadian epidemiologist)
Prabhat Jha is a Canadian epidemiologist at the University of Toronto who leads the Million Death Study, which counted premature deaths across India from 1997 to 2023.
Quarraisha Abdool Karim
Quarraisha Abdool Karim is a South African infectious diseases epidemiologist who co-founded CAPRISA in Durban and led the CAPRISA 004 tenofovir gel trial, the first evidence for HIV PrEP.
Qui-Lim Choo
Qui-Lim Choo is a virologist who, working in Michael Houghton's laboratory at the Chiron Corporation, found clone 5-1-1, identified the hepatitis C virus, and co-developed its first blood-screening test.
R. Bradley Sack
R. Bradley Sack (1935–2017) was an American physician and public health researcher at Johns Hopkins who discovered enterotoxigenic E. coli and helped develop oral rehydration therapy, credited with saving over 50 million lives.
R. Bruce Aylward
R. Bruce Aylward is a Canadian physician and epidemiologist best known for leading the Global Polio Eradication Initiative from 1998 to 2014 and working at the World Health Organization.
R. Gordon Douglas
R. Gordon Douglas (1934–2025) was an American physician-scientist in infectious diseases known for human volunteer studies of respiratory viruses and for leading Merck's vaccine division from 1991 to 1999.
Rabih O. Darouiche
Rabih Darouiche is an infectious diseases physician and professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston who studies and works to prevent infections associated with medical devices and surgical implants.
Rachel Schneerson
Rachel Schneerson is a vaccinologist who, with John B. Robbins at NICHD, developed the Hib conjugate vaccine that nearly eliminated childhood Hib meningitis, winning the 1996 Lasker Award.
Rafael Lozano (Mexican epidemiologist)
Rafael Lozano is a Mexican physician and epidemiologist who led the 2012 Lancet analysis of global causes of death for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010.
Raina K. Plowright
Raina K. Plowright is a disease ecologist and veterinary scientist who is the Steffen Professor at Cornell University, known for her 25-year research on Hendra virus spillover from bats.
Rainer Weber
Rainer Weber (born 1955) is a Swiss infectious-diseases physician-scientist who led the Clinic for Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology at University Hospital Zurich from 1997 to 2020.
Rajesh T. Gandhi
Rajesh T. Gandhi, also published as Rajesh Gandhi, is an American infectious-diseases physician-researcher in Boston, a Harvard Medical School professor known for HIV reservoir and cure research.
Ralph D. Feigin
Ralph D. Feigin was an American pediatric infectious-diseases physician who led pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital from 1977 until his death in 2008.
Ralph S. Paffenbarger
Ralph S. Paffenbarger (1922–2007) was an American epidemiologist and Stanford professor who pioneered the epidemiologic study of physical activity, following more than 50,000 Harvard and Pennsylvania alumni for decades.
Ramanan Laxminarayan
Ramanan Laxminarayan is an American health economist who studies antimicrobial resistance as an economics problem, leads the One Health Trust, and serves as a senior research scholar at Princeton University.
Ran D. Balicer
Ran D. Balicer, also known as Ran Balicer, is an Israeli physician and epidemiologist, Chief Innovation Officer of Clalit Health Services, known for 2021 nationwide COVID-19 vaccine studies.
Randall S. Singer
Randall S. Singer is a veterinary epidemiologist and Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine, known for research quantifying antimicrobial resistance at the animal–human interface.