Editors for Epidemiology and Global Health

We aim to publish studies across the entire spectrum of conditions and diseases of global public health importance (see also "What makes an eLife paper in epidemiology and global health?"). We also welcome submissions in broad areas of quantitative epidemiological research, novel mathematical models, and biological studies that are relevant to population health. Read the latest research in this subject area.

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Senior editors

Neil Ferguson

Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Neil Ferguson is Head of the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College London, where he leads the MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling. His research aims to improve the understanding of epidemiological factors and population processes that shape infectious disease spread in human and animal populations. A practical focus of his work is the analysis and optimisation of intervention strategies that are aimed at reducing transmission or disease burden.

Expertise
Epidemiology and Global Health
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
epidemiology and infectious disease
emerging infections
mosquito-borne infections
statistical and mathematical tools
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
Epidemiology and Global Health
Cancer Biology
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
molecular epidemiology and prevention of cervical cancer and human papillomavirus-associated diseases
cancers of the upper aero-digestive tract
prostate, endometrium, and childhood tumours
efficacy of cancer screening strategies
the impact of measurement error in epidemiology
societal and clinical influences on cancer patient survival

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).

Reviewing editors

Christine Clayton

Zentrum fuer Molekulare Biologie der Universitaet Heidelberg (ZMBH), Germany

Expertise
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Human Biology and Medicine
Epidemiology and Global Health

Research focus
trypanosomes
mRNA degradation
RNA-binding proteins
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
Edward D Janus

University of Melbourne, Australia

Expertise
Epidemiology and Global Health
Human Biology and Medicine

Research focus
cardiovascular disease
diabetes
prevention
chronic diseases
clinical guidelines
Prabhat Jha

Saint Michael's Hospital, Canada

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
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
Frank Kirchhoff

Ulm University Medical Center, Germany

Expertise
Epidemiology and Global Health
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
functional virology
origin, evolution and pathogenicity of HIV-1
HIV
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
Marc Lipsitch

Harvard T.H. Chan 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
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
genetic epidemiology
obesity and cardiometabolic traits
Belinda Nicolau

McGill University, Canada

Expertise
Epidemiology and Global Health

Research focus
cancer epidemiology
social determinants of health
Isabel Rodriguez-Barraquer

University of California, San Francisco, United States

Expertise
Epidemiology and Global Health
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
dengue
malaria
Zika
vector-bone diseases
serology
modeling

Experimental organism
human
Thomas Scriba

University of Cape Town, South Africa

Expertise
Immunology and Inflammation
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Epidemiology and Global Health

Research focus
tuberculosis
immunology
vaccination
biomarkers
T cells
clinical trials
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
M Dawn Teare

University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Epidemiology and Global Health

Research focus
statistics
population genetics
epidemiology