Wrong question and the wrong standard of proof.
Lipsitch M.
J Med Ethics. 2022 Apr 20. PMID: 35444009
Other Positions
Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Director, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics
Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Overview
I am Professor of Epidemiology with primary appointment in the Department of Epidemiology and an affiliated appointment in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, where my wet lab is located. I direct the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, a center of excellence funded by the MIDAS program of NIH/NIGMS. I am also the Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Concentration in Infectious Disease Epidemiology.
B.A., 1991, Philosophy
Yale University
D.Phil, 1995, Zoology
University of Oxford
Bibliography
Fourth Dose of BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine in a Nationwide Setting.
Magen O, Waxman JG, Makov-Assif M, Vered R, Dicker D, Hernán MA, Lipsitch M, Reis BY, Balicer RD, Dagan N.
N Engl J Med. 2022 04 28. 386(17):1603-1614. PMID: 35417631
Near real-time surveillance of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic with incomplete data.
De Salazar PM, Lu F, Hay JA, Gómez-Barroso D, Fernández-Navarro P, Martínez EV, Astray-Mochales J, Amillategui R, García-Fulgueiras A, Chirlaque MD, Sánchez-Migallón A, Larrauri A, Sierra MJ, Lipsitch M, Simón F, Santillana M, Hernán MA.
PLoS Comput Biol. 2022 Mar. 18(3):e1009964. PMID: 35358171
Identifying and Alleviating Bias Due to Differential Depletion of Susceptible People in Postmarketing Evaluations of COVID-19 Vaccines.
Kahn R, Schrag SJ, Verani JR, Lipsitch M.
Am J Epidemiol. 2022 Mar 24. 191(5):800-811. PMID: 35081612
Analysis of multiple bacterial species and antibiotic classes reveals large variation in the association between seasonal antibiotic use and resistance.
Sun DS, Kissler SM, Kanjilal S, Olesen SW, Lipsitch M, Grad YH.
PLoS Biol. 2022 03. 20(3):e3001579. PMID: 35263322
Deep-sequence phylogenetics to quantify patterns of HIV transmission in the context of a universal testing and treatment trial - BCPP/Ya Tsie trial.
Magosi LE, Zhang Y, Golubchik T, DeGruttola V, Tchetgen Tchetgen E, Novitsky V, Moore J, Bachanas P, Segolodi T, Lebelonyane R, Pretorius Holme M, Moyo S, Makhema J, Lockman S, Fraser C, Essex MM, Lipsitch M.
Elife. 2022 03 01. 11. PMID: 35229714
Antibiotic prescribing across age groups in the Kaiser Permanente Northern California population in association with different diagnoses, and with influenza incidence, 2010-2018.
Goldstein E, Fireman BH, Klein NP, Lipsitch M, Ray GT.
Epidemiol Infect. 2022 Feb 24. 150:e85. PMID: 35506177
Risk of persistent and new clinical sequelae among adults aged 65 years and older during the post-acute phase of SARS-CoV-2 infection: retrospective cohort study.
Cohen K, Ren S, Heath K, Dasmariñas MC, Jubilo KG, Guo Y, Lipsitch M, Daugherty SE.
BMJ. 2022 02 09. 376:e068414. PMID: 35140117
Indirect protection of children from SARS-CoV-2 infection through parental vaccination.
Hayek S, Shaham G, Ben-Shlomo Y, Kepten E, Dagan N, Nevo D, Lipsitch M, Reis BY, Balicer RD, Barda N.
Science. 2022 03 11. 375(6585):1155-1159. PMID: 35084938
Comparative performance of between-population vaccine allocation strategies with applications to SARS-CoV-2.
Joshi K, Rumpler E, Kennedy-Shaffer L, Bosan R, Lipsitch M.
medRxiv. 2022 Jan 25. PMID: 34212161
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The latest on the coronavirus
Harvard Chan School experts offer comments and context about the coronavirus in a variety of media outlets.
Parental vaccination protects unvaccinated kids, study finds
Children under age 5 who aren’t yet eligible for COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. can get substantial protection from the coronavirus if one or both of their parents is vaccinated, according to a new study.
An effort to ‘supercharge’ disease forecasting
A new federal center aims to help the nation better forecast future waves of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as outbreaks of other diseases.
Delta-like SARS-CoV-2 variants are most likely to increase pandemic severity
Delta-like SARS-CoV-2 variants are most likely to increase pandemic severity, according to a new study.
Infectious diseases modeler Rebecca Kahn named STAT Wunderkind
Rebecca Kahn, visiting scientist and former postdoctoral research fellow in the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, was named a 2021 STAT Wunderkind in mid-November.
