Editors for Epidemiology and Global Health
Senior editors
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Balram Bhargava
Indian Council of Medical Research, India
Dr Bhargava is the Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Secretary, Department of Health Research, (Ministry of Health & Family Welfare), Government of India.
Professor (Dr) Balram Bhargava was born in Lucknow 21st July 1961. He received all his medical training at the King George Medical College, Lucknow. Further, he received advanced training at the Gardiner Institute, University of Glasgow and the Washington Heart Centre, Washington DC.
Balram Bhargava is Professor of Cardiology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, and also serves as the Executive Director for Stanford India Biodesign Centre, School of International Biodesign (SiB).
He is a cardiologist at the forefront of biomedical innovation, public health, medical education, and medical research. He directs the School of International Biodesign at AIIMS, an interdisciplinary programme to foster innovation and design of low-cost implants and devices which has led to more than thirty patents on low-cost medical devices and a dozen start-ups. He developed the indigenous Platinum Iridium coil coronary stent and has been instrumental in clinically evaluating and establishing medicated Indian stents. He has led innovations initiatives, such as Society for Less Investigative Medicine (SLIM). He is currently providing leadership for creative disease prevention, early detection, and transport system for sick cardiac patients (mission DELHI (Delhi Emergency Life Heart-Attack Initiative) by trained motorcycle first responder Paramedics).
Professor Bhargava was awarded the Padma Shri by the Indian government for his contributions to medicine. He is also been awarded the SN Bose Centenary Award by the Indian National Science Congress, the National Academy of Sciences Platinum Jubilee Award, the Tata Innovation Fellowship, Vasvik Award for Biomedical Technology Innovation, the Ranbaxy Award, OP Bhasin Award in the field of Health and Medical Sciences and more recently the UNESCO Equatorial Guinea Prize for Life Sciences. Dr Lee Jong-Wook Memorial Prize for Public Health, 2019 by WHO Hqrs, Geneva and received President’s Medal Award from Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, UK for his research in ‘Frugal Innovations’ in February 2020.
- Expertise
- Medicine
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Research focus
- interventional cardiology
- stents
- restenosis
- coronary artery disease
- risk factors of valvular heart disease
- interventions of rheumatic heart disease
- epidemiology
- non-communicable disease
- infectious disease
- health policy
- public health
- Experimental organism
- human
- Competing interests statement
- Dr Bhargava is the founding editor of the British Medical Journal Innovations (BMJi) until 2018, and he is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Indian Journal of Medical Research.
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Eduardo Franco
McGill University, Canada
Eduardo Franco is Professor and Chairman, Department of Oncology, and Director, Division of Cancer Epidemiology, McGill University, Montreal. He holds BSc (1975) and Licentiate (1976) degrees in biology from Universidade de Campinas, Brazil, and master's (MPH) and doctoral (DrPH) degrees in public health microbiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1981-84). He was a Guest Researcher at the US Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta (1980-81 and 1983-84), and a post-doctoral fellow in cancer epidemiology during 1984 at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, at the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, and at Louisiana State University, in New Orleans. Since 1985, he has conducted epidemiologic research on the causes of cancer and on the means to prevent it or to improve patient survival. He is mostly known for his contributions to our understanding of human papillomavirus infection as the cause of cervical cancer and using this knowledge to prevent this cancer via vaccination and improved screening strategies. He received the Canadian Cancer Research Alliance’s Distinguished Service to Cancer Research Award, Lifetime Achievement Awards from the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology and from the International Papillomavirus Society, the Women in US Government’s Leadership Award, the Canadian Cancer Society’s Warwick Prize, the Geoffrey Howe Outstanding Contribution Award from the Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, the University of British Columbia’s Chew Wei Memorial Prize in Cancer Research, and the McLaughlin-Gallie Award from the Royal College of Physicians of Canada. He has mentored 115 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, and 30 undergraduate trainees. He is Officer of the Order of Canada and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Heholds an honorary doctorate from Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal.
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Medicine
- Research focus
- cancer epidemiology
- cancer prevention
- human papillomavirus
- cancer screening
- Experimental organism
- human
- Competing interests statement
- Entire research program funded by the Medical Research Council of Canada (until 1999), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) (1999-present), National Institutes of Health, Canadian Cancer Society, and Cancer Research Society. He has received salary awards from the Fonds de Recherche Quebec Santé and CIHR. He holds a James McGill Professorship and the Minda de Gunzburg Endowed Chair at McGill University. He serves as Editor-in-Chief for Preventive Medicine and Preventive Medicine Reports and serves on the editorial boards of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, International Journal of Cancer, Papillomavirus Research, and Salud Publica de Mexico. He has served as occasional consultant to companies involved with HPV vaccination (Merck and GSK) and HPV diagnostics (Roche, Abbott, Qiagen, and BD).
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Diane M Harper
University of Michigan, United States
Diane M Harper, MD, MPH, MS, completed her undergraduate and graduate degrees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the fields of Chemical Engineering and Polymerics. She received her medical and public health degrees from the University of Kansas in Kansas City, where she also did residencies in Gynecology/Obstetrics and Family Medicine. Dr Harper has spent the majority of her professional career at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, as clinician, teacher and researcher in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Community and Family Medicine and Women’s and Gender Studies, including improving life for LGBTQ.
She has received the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) Excellence in Education Award and the Curtis Hames Research Award honoring her for changing medical care for women through evidence based research. She served as the Chair of Family and Geriatric Medicine at the University of Louisville during which time she also served on the United States Preventive Services Task Force.
She currently is a tenured Professor at the University of Michigan, serving as the Director for Research Management within the Michigan Institute of Clinical and Health Research, one of 50 Clinical and Translational Science Award Research Hubs across the United States. To date she has over 250 peer reviewed publications with over 27,000 citations, and over 40,000 downloads of her seminal review of HPV vaccines.
While at Dartmouth she developed and directed the Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Research Group based at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center in which research on all aspects of HPV associated diseases, specifically cervical cancer prevention was conducted. She is an internationally recognized expert on Human Papillomavirus, the cause of cervical cancer, and its prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines. She has published the seminal clinical research on HPV vaccines and lectured internationally in over 100 countries. She has served on NCI research committees, European research study sections, addressed the Council on Foreign Affairs, and served as a technical advisor to the World Health Organization. Dr Harper has been honored as one of the top clinicians in her field in the US, and Family Physician of the Year in New Hampshire in 2006.
- Expertise
- Medicine
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Research focus
- HPV associated diseases
- primary care
- women's health
- cancer precursor detection
- health behaviours
- epidemiology
- cancer screening
- Experimental organism
- human
- Competing interests statement
- Diane Harper has received funding from NCI, NCATS, NHLBI, CDC, multiple national philanthropic organizations, including the American Cancer Society, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Susan G Komen Foundation, in addition to state and local funding agencies and collaborations with industry. She serves in editorship capacities on boards including the Annals of Family Medicine, Preventive Medicine Reports, PLoS ONE, and Gynecologic Oncology. She is a peer reviewer for The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, among other journals.
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Joshua T Schiffer
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States
Dr Joshua T Schiffer is an infectious disease physician and researcher who develops mathematical models to address significant medical challenges. A focus of his work is to analyze strategies to achieve an HIV cure in people who require antiviral drugs for their lifetime due to reservoirs of latent virus. These models assess the potential of a wide variety of potential curative technologies. Dr Schiffer and colleagues also use mathematical modeling to study how T cells help control numerous herpes viruses that cause disease in healthy people and cancer patients with compromised immune systems. They develop models to explain when and how latent viruses reactivate and use models to optimize the effectiveness of antiviral drugs.
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Medicine
- Research focus
- mathematical modelling
- herpesviruses
- HIV
- COVID-19
- T cell immunology
- Experimental organism
- human
- viruses
- HSV
- SARS-CoV-2
Reviewing editors
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Musa Ali
Hawassa University, Ethiopia
- Expertise
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Genetics and Genomics
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- infectious diseases
- antimicrobial resistance
- molecular epidemiology
- hospital-acquired infection
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Daniel W Belsky
Columbia University, United States
- Expertise
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- aging
- epidemiology
- lifecourse
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Philip Boonstra
University of Michigan, United States
- Expertise
- Medicine
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Cancer Biology
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- biostatistics
- clinical trials
- cancer biostatistics
- epidemiology
- ECMO
- statistical programming
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Shai Carmi
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- Expertise
- Genetics and Genomics
- Evolutionary Biology
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Research focus
- ancient DNA
- polygenic scores
- human population genetics
- genetic genealogy
- coalescent theory
- demographic inference
- preimplantation genetic testing
- forensic DNA
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Christine Clayton
Zentrum fuer Molekulare Biologie der Universitaet Heidelberg (ZMBH), Germany
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Research focus
- trypanosomes
- mRNA degradation
- RNA-binding proteins
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Ben Cooper
Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Thailand
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Research focus
- population biology of communicable diseases
- antimicrobial resistance
- epidemiological methods
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Jennifer Cullen
Case Western Reserve University, United States
- Expertise
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Medicine
- Research focus
- cancer population sciences
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Joris Deelen
Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
- Expertise
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- aging
- longevity
- age-related diseases
- genetics
- functional characterization of genetic variants
- CRISPR/Cas9
- biomarkers of aging
- biology of aging
- Experimental organism
- mouse
- human
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Marcelo U Ferreira
University of São Paulo, Brazil
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Research focus
- infectious diseases
- malaria
- parasites
- epidemiology
- population genomics
- genomics
- control
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Urszula Krzych
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, United States
- Expertise
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- adoptive immunity
- immune memory responses
- liver resident T memory cells
- Plasmodium liver stage infection
- Plasmodium antigens/vaccines
- design of malaria vaccines
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Salem Y Mohamed
Zagazig University, Egypt
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Genetics and Genomics
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Medicine
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- advanced endoscopy
- cell biology
- cancer
- inflammation
- genetics
- basic medicine
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Belinda Nicolau
McGill University, Canada
- Expertise
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Medicine
- Research focus
- cancer epidemiology
- social determinants of health
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Izuchukwu Okafor
Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Cell Biology
- Chromosomes and Gene Expression
- Developmental Biology
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Genetics and Genomics
- Medicine
- Neuroscience
- Research focus
- developmental biology
- reproductive biology
- gene expression
- molecular biology
- public health
- reproductive health
- medical education
- anatomical sciences
- neuroreproduction
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George N Okoli
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Research focus
- vaccines
- antiviral drugs
- vaccination
- influenza
- COVID-19
- HPV
- evidence synthesis
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Isabel Rodriguez-Barraquer
University of California, San Francisco, United States
- Expertise
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Medicine
- Research focus
- dengue
- malaria
- Zika
- vector-borne diseases
- serology
- modeling
- Experimental organism
- human
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Margaret Stanley
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Cancer Biology
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Medicine
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Research focus
- vaccines
- cervix cancer
- cervix precancer
- keratinocyte biology
- human papillomavirus
- DNA viruses
- vaccine immunology
- Experimental organism
- human
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Shuo Su
Nanjing Agricultural University, China
- Expertise
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- evolutionary biology
- receptor
- protein interactions
- epidemics
- epidemic modelling
- virus evolution and diversity
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Michael Tomori
National Open University of Nigeria, Nigeria
- Expertise
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Research focus
- global health care
- public health
- epidemiology
- HIV/AIDS treatment and management
- viral load optimization
- health systems strengthening
- pharmacology
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Amy Wesolowski
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, United States
- Expertise
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- infectious diseases
- mobility
- malaria
- parasites
- measles
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Frankline Wirsiy
Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Amref Health Africa, Cameroon
- Expertise
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Research focus
- global health security
- emerging infectious diseases
- immunization practice
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Moussa Zouache
University of Utah, United States
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Medicine
- Epidemiology and Global Health
- Genetics and Genomics
- Neuroscience
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- visual neuroscience
- population genetics
- transcriptomics
- proteomics
- biology of aging
- mathematical modelling
- clinical research
