Marc Lipsitch

epidemic systems modeling.

Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and director of the Centre for Communicable Disease Dynamics. Built a track record modelling pathogen spread, antibiotic resistance, and herd-immunity thresholds. Became widely cited during COVID-19 for early quantitative forecasts of global spread and for outspoken scepticism of gain-of-function research risks.