Editors for Epidemiology and Global Health

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Senior editors

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.
Miles P Davenport

University of New South Wales, Australia

Miles Davenport is Professor of Medicine and Head of the Infection Analytics Program at the Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity at UNSW Sydney. He graduated in medicine from the University of Sydney and completed his DPhil at the University of Oxford in immunology before retraining in mathematical biology. He leads a team of applied mathematicians who use statistical analysis and modelling to understand host-pathogen interactions in infection and immunity. This involves collaboration with a wide variety of experimental and clinical scientists both in Australian and internationally. Major areas of investigation include understanding HIV latency, malaria immunity and treatment, and neonatal immune development. He is a past-President of the Australasian Society for Immunology and is supported by an NHMRC (Australia) Investigator grant.

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

Research focus
virology
immunity
vaccines
HIV/AIDS
mathematical modelling
host-pathogen interactions
biostatistics

Competing interests statement
Miles Davenport receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia), the Australian Research Council, and the National Institutes of Health (USA). He is an Associate Editor at PLoS Computational Biology and on the Editorial Board of Immunology and Cell Biology.
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
Medicine

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
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).
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 sentinel 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.

Reviewing editors

David B Allison

Indiana University, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Genetics and Genomics
Epidemiology and Global Health
Computational and Systems Biology
Evolutionary Biology

Research focus
experimental design
statistics
longevity
biostatistics
obesity
nutrition
senescence
research rigour
science integrity
Muthuswamy Balasubramanyam

ICMR Emeritus Scientist, Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, India

Expertise
Medicine
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Cancer Biology
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology
Epidemiology and Global Health
Genetics and Genomics
Immunology and Inflammation
Neuroscience
Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Research focus
disease biology
diabetes
aging
omnics
calcium signaling
endocrine disruptors
probiotics
molecular medicine
Marc J Bonten

University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands

Expertise
Epidemiology and Global Health
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Medicine

Research focus
epidemiology
antibiotic resistance
healthcare-associated infections
prevention
clinical trials
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
Charlotte Cecil

Erasmus MC, Netherlands

Expertise
Neuroscience
Epidemiology and Global Health
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
epigenetics
DNA methylation
psychiatric disorders
development
(early life) stress
epidemiology
birth cohort
child mental health
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
Sarah E Cobey

University of Chicago, United States

Expertise
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Ecology
Evolutionary Biology
Epidemiology and Global Health
Medicine

Research focus
B cells
coevolution
infectious disease dynamics
influenza
mathematical modelling
vaccination
Caroline Colijn

Simon Fraser University, Canada

Expertise
Epidemiology and Global Health
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
evolution of pathogens
pathogen ecology
mathematics
epidemiological modelling
Alex R Cook

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Expertise
Epidemiology and Global Health
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Medicine

Research focus
infectious disease epidemiology
mathematical modelling
biostatistics
health policy
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
Jennifer Cullen

Case Western Reserve University, United States

Expertise
Epidemiology and Global Health
Medicine

Research focus
cancer population sciences
Joris Deelen

Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Germany

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
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
Jennifer Flegg

University of Melbourne, Australia

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Epidemiology and Global Health

Research focus
mathematical modelling
mathematical biology
computational biology
infectious disease dynamics
Sara Hägg

Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Expertise
Epidemiology and Global Health
Genetics and Genomics

Research focus
aging
gerontology
biomarkers of aging
biological age
molecular epidemiology

Experimental organism
human
Niel Hens

University of Antwerp, Belgium

Expertise
Epidemiology and Global Health
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
multivariate statistics
HCV and HIV coinfection
infectious disease modelling
applied statistics
Edward D Janus

University of Melbourne, Australia

Expertise
Epidemiology and Global Health
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
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
vaccines
infectious disease epidemiology
mathematical modelling
health economics
low- and middle-income countries

Experimental organism
human
vaccine-preventable pathogens
human papillomavirus
measles virus
rotavirus
influenza virus
S. pneumoniae
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
Joseph Lewnard

University of California, Berkeley , United States

Expertise
Epidemiology and Global Health
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
epidemiology
infectious disease
vaccines
casual inference
transmission modelling
streptococcus spp.
respiratory pathogens
enteric disease
Hongliang Li

Wuhan University School of Medicine, China

Expertise
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Epidemiology and Global Health
Immunology and Inflammation
Medicine

Research focus
cardiometabolic disease
metabolic disease
vascular injury
animal models
liver
innate immunity
Marc Lipsitch

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, United States

Expertise
Epidemiology and Global Health
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Medicine

Research focus
pathogen transmission modeling
evolution of pathogens
vaccine epidemiology
antimicrobial resistance
research ethics

Experimental organism
S. pneumoniae
Elham Mahmoudi

University of Michigan, United States

Expertise
Medicine
Epidemiology and Global Health

Research focus
health services research
large data analysis
econometrics and methodology
economics of dementia
economics of aging
disability
healthcare cost and utilization
disparity in health and healthcare
Talía Malagón

McGill University, Canada

Expertise
Epidemiology and Global Health

Research focus
human papillomavirus
cervical cancer
screening
vaccination
mathematical modelling
cancer epidemiology
sexually transmitted infections
James M McCaw

The University of Melbourne, Australia

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

Research focus
mathematical epidemiology
virus dynamics
infectious diseases
mathematical modelling
pandemics
influenza
malaria
COVID-19
Belinda Nicolau

McGill University, Canada

Expertise
Epidemiology and Global Health
Medicine

Research focus
cancer epidemiology
social determinants of health
C. Brandon Ogbunugafor

Yale University, United States

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Epidemiology and Global Health
Physics of Living Systems
Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Research focus
disease ecology
microbial evolution
population genetics
epidemiology
evolutionary medicine

Experimental organism
E. coli
human
P. falciparum
S. cerevisiae
viruses
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
Joshua T Schiffer

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States

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
Nicolas Schlecht

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, United States

Expertise
Epidemiology and Global Health
Medicine

Research focus
cancer prevention
cancer control
Viviana Simon

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

Expertise
Epidemiology and Global Health
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Medicine

Research focus
viral-host interactions
retroviral restriction factors
HIV drug resistance
Mashaal Sohail

National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

Expertise
Computational and Systems Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Genetics and Genomics
Epidemiology and Global Health

Research focus
population genetics
complex traits
natural selection
population structure
demographic history
genomics
equity
anthropological genetics
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
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