Some principles for using epidemiologic study results to parameterize transmission models.
Joshi K, Kahn R, Boyer C, Lipsitch M.
medRxiv. 2023 Oct 03. PMID: 37873220
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
Examining bias from differential depletion of susceptibles in vaccine effectiveness estimates in settings of waning.
Kahn R, Feikin DR, Wiegand RE, Lipsitch M.
Am J Epidemiol. 2023 Sep 28. PMID: 37771045
Reduced effectiveness of repeat influenza vaccination: distinguishing among within-season waning, recent clinical infection, and subclinical infection.
Bi Q, Dickerman BA, McLean HQ, Martin ET, Gaglani M, Wernli KJ, Balasubramani GK, Flannery B, Lipsitch M, Cobey S.
medRxiv. 2023 Sep 27. PMID: 37016669
Increased vaccine sensitivity of an emerging SARS-CoV-2 variant.
Lewnard JA, Hong V, Kim JS, Shaw SF, Lewin B, Takhar H, Lipsitch M, Tartof SY.
Nat Commun. 2023 Jun 29. 14(1):3854. PMID: 37386005
Geographic Targeting of COVID-19 Testing to Maximize Detection in Los Angeles County.
Jia KM, Kahn R, Fisher R, Balter S, Lipsitch M.
Open Forum Infect Dis. 2023 Jul. 10(7):ofad331. PMID: 37469616
Estimated preventable COVID-19-associated deaths due to non-vaccination in the United States.
Jia KM, Hanage WP, Lipsitch M, Johnson AG, Amin AB, Ali AR, Scobie HM, Swerdlow DL.
Eur J Epidemiol. 2023 Apr 24. PMID: 37093505
Learning From COVID-19 to Improve Surveillance for Emerging Threats.
Jernigan DB, George D, Lipsitch M.
Am J Public Health. 2023 05. 113(5):520-522. PMID: 36926966
Leveraging Serosurveillance and Postmortem Surveillance to Quantify the Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Africa.
Kogan NE, Gantt S, Swerdlow D, Viboud C, Semakula M, Lipsitch M, Santillana M.
Clin Infect Dis. 2023 02 08. 76(3):424-432. PMID: 36196586
Fairness and efficiency considerations in COVID-19 vaccine allocation strategies: A case study comparing front-line workers and 65-74 year olds in the United States.
Rumpler E, Feldman JM, Bassett MT, Lipsitch M.
PLOS Glob Public Health. 2023. 3(2):e0001378. PMID: 36962865
Comparative performance of between-population vaccine allocation strategies with applications for emerging pandemics.
Joshi K, Rumpler E, Kennedy-Shaffer L, Bosan R, Lipsitch M.
Vaccine. 2023 03 10. 41(11):1864-1874. PMID: 36697312
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