Associate Director, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics
Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Joy Foundation Fellow
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Dr. Caroline Buckee joined Harvard School of Public Health in the summer of 2010 as an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2017. In 2013, Dr. Buckee was named the Associate Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics.
The Buckee lab uses mathematical models and data science to understand the mechanisms driving the spread of infectious diseases, with a focus on pathogens like malaria that effect vulnerable populations in low income countries. After receiving a D.Phil from the University of Oxford, Caroline worked at the Kenya Medical Research Institute to analyze clinical and epidemiological aspects of malaria as a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow. Her work led to an Omidyar Fellowship at the Santa Fe Institute, where she developed theoretical approaches to understanding malaria parasite evolution and ecology. In 2013 Dr. Buckee was named one of MIT Tech Review's 35 Innovators Under 35, a CNN Top 10: Thinker, and Foreign Policy Magazine's Global Thinkers. Her work has appeared in high profile scientific journals such as Science and PNAS, as well as being featured in the popular press, including CNN, The New Scientist, Voice of America, NPR, and ABC.
LaVerriere E, Schwabl P, Carrasquilla M, Taylor AR, Johnson ZM, Shieh M, Panchal R, Straub TJ, Kuzma R, Watson S, Buckee CO, Andrade CM, Portugal S, Crompton PD, Traore B, Rayner JC, Corredor V, James K, Cox H, Early AM, MacInnis BL, Neafsey DE.
Mol Ecol Resour. 2022 Apr 19. PMID: 35437908
Koplewitz G, Lu F, Clemente L, Buckee C, Santillana M.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2022 01. 16(1):e0010071. PMID: 35073316
Brown TS, Arogbokun O, Buckee CO, Chang HH.
PLoS Genet. 2021 12. 17(12):e1009335. PMID: 34928954
Chang HH, Chang MC, Kiang M, Mahmud AS, Ekapirat N, Engø-Monsen K, Sudathip P, Buckee CO, Maude RJ.
Sci Rep. 2021 12 02. 11(1):23348. PMID: 34857842
Menkir TF, Cox H, Poirier C, Saul M, Jones-Weekes S, Clementson C, M de Salazar P, Santillana M, Buckee CO.
PLoS Comput Biol. 2021 11. 17(11):e1009570. PMID: 34784353
Kishore N, Taylor AR, Jacob PE, Vembar N, Cohen T, Buckee CO, Menzies NA.
Lancet Digit Health. 2022 01. 4(1):e27-e36. PMID: 34740555
Brown TS, de Salazar Munoz PM, Bhatia A, Bunda B, Williams EK, Bor D, Miller JS, Mohareb AM, Thierauf J, Yang W, Villalba J, Naranbai V, Beltran WG, Miller TE, Kress D, Stelljes K, Johnson K, Larremore DB, Lennerz J, Iafrate AJ, Balsari S, Buckee CO, Grad YH.
medRxiv. 2021 Oct 05. PMID: 33564784
De Salazar PM, Cox H, Imhoff H, Alexandre JSF, Buckee CO.
Lancet Planet Health. 2021 10. 5(10):e731-e738. PMID: 34627477
Meredith HR, Giles JR, Perez-Saez J, Mande T, Rinaldo A, Mutembo S, Kabalo EN, Makungo K, Buckee CO, Tatem AJ, Metcalf CJE, Wesolowski A.
Elife. 2021 09 17. 10. PMID: 34533456
Cowley LA, Afrad MH, Rahman SIA, Mamun MMA, Chin T, Mahmud A, Rahman MZ, Billah MM, Khan MH, Sultana S, Khondaker T, Baker S, Banik N, Alam AN, Mannoor K, Banu S, Chowdhury A, Flora MS, Thomson NR, Buckee CO, Qadri F, Shirin T.
Nat Microbiol. 2021 10. 6(10):1271-1278. PMID: 34497354
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