The Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics works to improve methods for infectious disease modeling and statistical analysis, quantify disease and intervention impact, engage with policymakers to enhance decision-making, and train the next generation of scientists.
In a recent article, Dr. Marc Lipsitch, a professor of epidemiology and Director at the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Massachusetts, along…
In August, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) cancelled nearly $500 million in contracts that funded mRNA vaccine development. The mRNA technology was the most commonly used…
Santillana, director of Northeastern’s Machine Intelligence Group for the Betterment of Health and the Environment, tested models that foretell upsurges of the disease in 180 locations around the world. About…
Sam Harris speaks with Marc Lipsitch about pandemic preparedness. They discuss what we learned from Covid, loss of trust in institutions, how to effectively communicate scientific information in the current…
Yonatan Grad, professor of immunology and infectious diseases, comments on the potential impact of recent decisions related to vaccines made by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Some researchers are welcoming a Trump administration executive order calling for tighter policies on so-called gain-of-function research—experiments that could make pathogens more dangerous. But they are also expressing concern about what exactly the order would mean.
