Learning From COVID-19 to Improve Surveillance for Emerging Threats.
Jernigan DB, George D, Lipsitch M.
Am J Public Health. 2023 Mar 16. e1-e3. PMID: 36926966
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
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 Mar 10. 41(11):1864-1874. PMID: 36697312
Strengthen oversight of risky research on pathogens.
Pannu J, Palmer MJ, Cicero A, Relman DA, Lipsitch M, Inglesby T.
Science. 2022 12 16. 378(6625):1170-1172. PMID: 36480598
Mass drug administration of azithromycin: an analysis.
Kahn R, Eyal N, Sow SO, Lipsitch M.
Clin Microbiol Infect. 2023 Mar. 29(3):326-331. PMID: 36309328
Prescribing for different antibiotic classes across age groups in the Kaiser Permanente Northern California population in association with influenza incidence, 2010-2018.
Goldstein E, Fireman BH, Klein NP, Lipsitch M, Ray GT.
Epidemiol Infect. 2022 10 26. 150:e180. PMID: 36285506
Infectious disease dynamics and restrictions on social gathering size.
Boyer CB, Rumpler E, Kissler SM, Lipsitch M.
Epidemics. 2022 09. 40:100620. PMID: 36058184
Comparative performance of between-population vaccine allocation strategies with applications for emerging pandemics.
Joshi K, Rumpler E, Kennedy-Shaffer L, Bosan R, Lipsitch M.
medRxiv. 2022 Jul 13. PMID: 34212161
Infectious disease dynamics and restrictions on social gathering size.
Boyer CB, Rumpler E, Kissler SM, Lipsitch M.
medRxiv. 2022 Jul 12. PMID: 35860220
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