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Alison Galvani, PhD

Burnett and Stender Families Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis (CIDMA)

Appointments

Biography

Alison Galvani, Ph.D., is the founding director of the Yale Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis (CIDMA) and the Burnett and Stender Families Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, Yale School of Medicine. She has applied her modelling and health economics skills to address myriad public health challenges, including HIV/AIDS, Zika, Ebola, influenza, and COVID-19. In 2015, Galvani became the youngest faculty member ever appointed to an endowed chair in the history of the Yale School of Medicine. She earned her Ph.D. and B.A. from the University of Oxford.

Education & Training

  • PhD
    University of Oxford (2002)

Honors & Recognition

AwardDate
Bellman Prize2013
The Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists from the New York Academy of Sciences2012
Guggenheim Fellowship2006
MacMillan Center Director’s Award2006
Fellowship from Institute for Advanced Studies, Berlin2006
Young Investigator’s Prize, American Society of Naturalists2005

Departments & Organizations