Editors for Epidemiology and Global Health

Senior editors

1. 

   Prabhat Jha

   Senior Editor

   Prabhat Jha has been a key figure in epidemiology and economics of global health for the past decade. He is the University of Toronto Endowed Professor in Disease Control and Canada Research Chair at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and the founding Director of the Centre for Global Health Research at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto. Professor Jha is a lead investigator of the Million Death Study in India, which quantifies the causes of premature mortality in over one million homes from 1997–2014 and which examines the contribution of key risk factors such as tobacco, alcohol, diet, and environmental exposures. He is co-investigator of the Disease Control Priorities Network and the author of several influential books on tobacco control, including two that helped enable a global treaty on tobacco control, now signed by over 160 countries. Prior to founding CGHR, Professor Jha served as Senior Scientist for the World Health Organization, where he co-led the work on health and poverty for the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health. Earlier, he headed the World Bank team responsible for developing the Second National HIV/AIDS Control Program in India. His advisory work has included the Government of South Africa on its national health insurance plan, and the United States Institute of Medicine on global health. Notable recognitions include the Order of Canada (2013) for contributions to global health, the Luther Terry Award for Research on Tobacco Control (2012), The Globe and Mail 25 Transformational Canadians (2010), Top 40 Canadians under Age 40 Award (2004), the Ontario Premier’s Research Excellence Award (2004), and Gold Medal from the Poland Health Promotion Foundation (2000). Professor Jha holds an MD from the University of Manitoba and a DPhil from Oxford University, where he studied as a Canadian Rhodes Scholar.

   Expertise

   Epidemiology and Global Health

   Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Human Biology and Medicine

   Research focus

   epidemiology

   global health

   infectious disease and population dynamics

   randomized controlled trials

   Competing interests statement

   Prabhat Jha has received funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Canadian International Development Research Agency, Canadian International Development Agency, the International Science and Technology Program of the Canadian government, and the US National Institutes of Health. He serves on the editorial board of Demography India. He advises several agencies and the Canadian government on epidemiology, disease control strategies, and tobacco control, and serves on the advisory board of the UK Biobank.

Reviewing editors

1. 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

2. Neil Ferguson

   Imperial College London, United Kingdom

   Expertise

   Epidemiology and Global Health

   Research focus

   epidemiology and infectious disease

   emerging infections

   mosquito-borne infections

   statistical and mathematical tools

3. Eduardo Franco

   McGill University, Canada

   Expertise

   Cancer Biology

   Epidemiology and Global Health

   Human Biology and Medicine

   Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Research focus

   human biology and medicine

   microbiology and infectious disease

   cancer epidemiology and prevention

   screening

   human papillomavirus infection

4. Mark Jit

   London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and Public Health England, United Kingdom

   Expertise

   Epidemiology and Global Health

   Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Research focus

   immunisation

   health economics

   mathematical modelling of infectious diseases

5. Urszula Krzych

   Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, United States

   Expertise

   Epidemiology and Global Health

   Immunology and Inflammation

   Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Research focus

   malaria

   adaptive immunity

   vaccines

6. Marc Lipsitch

   Harvard School of Public Health, United States

   Expertise

   Epidemiology and Global Health

   Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Research focus

   mathematical modeling

   evolution of pathogens

   epidemiology of infectious diseases

   Experimental organism

   streptococcus pneumoniae

7. Ruth Loos

   The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

   Expertise

   Epidemiology and Global Health

   Human Biology and Medicine

   Genetics and Genomics

   Research focus

   epidemiology

   obesity and cardiometabolic traits

8. Madhukar Pai

   McGill University, Canada

   Expertise

   Epidemiology and Global Health

   Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Research focus

   tuberculosis

   epidemiology

   public health

   global health

9. Viviana Simon

   The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

   Expertise

   Epidemiology and Global Health

   Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Research focus

   viral-host interactions

   retroviral restriction factors

   HIV drug resistance

10. M Dawn Teare

    Reviewing Editor

    Expertise

    Computational and Systems Biology

    Epidemiology and Global Health

    Research focus

    statistics

    population genetics

    epidemiology