Alison Galvani, PhD
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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)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.
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Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases
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- PhD
- University of Oxford (2002)
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Dogs and their owners wait in line for canine rabies vaccination during a campaign in northwest Tanzania
We showed that canine rabies vaccination was both an epidemiologically effective and economically cost-effective approach to protect people from rabies transmission (Fitzpatrick et al 2014 Annals of Internal Medicine).
News
- April 22, 2024Source: Yale News
Study: Proposed changes to Medicare, Medicaid could cost thousands of lives
- March 25, 2024Source: Healio
Study: Annual COVID-19 vaccine campaign with second dose reduces disease burden, costs
- January 02, 2024
RSV Vaccines Would Greatly Reduce Illness if Implemented Like Flu Shots
- July 05, 2023Source: The Commonwealth Fund
Lessons from COVID-19 Can Help the U.S. Prepare for the Next Pandemic
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