Role of Modeling During Epidemic Responses - View From Public Health, Industry, and Academia

Title: Role of Modeling During Epidemic Responses - View From Public Health, Industry, and Academia

Bio: David L. Swerdlow MD is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (CCDD). He recently retired from Pfizer Vaccines after six years as Global COVID Vaccine Medical Lead (March 2020 - July 2021) and Clinical Epidemiology & Business Development Lead (May 2015- July 2021). Previously he worked at CDC for 25 years. From 2009–15 he was the Associate Director for Science, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD). He was Incident Manager (CDC lead) of CDC’s MERS Coronavirus Responses in 2013 and 2014 and held leadership roles during numerous other CDC emergency responses including CDCs response to cholera in Haiti (CDC lead), pandemic Influenza A (H1N1), Ebola in West Africa, Hurricane Katrina, adverse events associated with smallpox vaccine, and the anthrax bioterrorism at tacks. At CDC he spent more than a decade studying food-borne diseases and several years studying respiratory diseases, rickettsial diseases and HIV/AIDS. He attended UCSD and Harvard Medical School and completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Washington, Seattle, Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) fellowship at CDC, a preventive medicine residency at the San Diego County Health Department, and an infectious diseases fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital (1992-93). He is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases, was a clinical assistant professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and worked in the Infectious Diseases Clinic at the Atlanta VA Medical Center from 1993- 2015. He was an adjunct assistant professor at Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University and was the lead instructor of two epidemiology courses. He was on the Program Committee of IDSA and was an Academic Editor at PLoS ONE. He has co-authored over 265 peer-review publications, book chapters, and government publications.

Speaker: David Swerdlow

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