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Alison Galvani, PhD

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Burnett and Stender Families Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

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Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis (CIDMA)

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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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Education & Training

PhD
University of Oxford (2002)

Research

Overview

Professor Galvani's research focuses on integrating epidemiology and the evolutionary ecology or economics in order to generate predictions that could not be made by these disciplines alone. This interdisciplinary approach has widespread potential for answering evolutionary questions, explaining empirical observations and informing public health policy. Professor Galvani has applied modeling and cost-effectiveness analyses to improve national and international public health policies of influenza, TB and HPV, HIV, rotavirus and Ebola, among other diseases.


Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Africa, Southern; Biological Evolution; Ecology; Economics; Epidemiologic Methods; Epidemiology; Evolution, Planetary; Global Health; HIV; Infectious Disease Medicine; Influenza, Human; Parasitology; Public Health; Tuberculosis

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Alison Galvani's published research.

Publications

2024

2023

2015

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Academic Achievements and Community Involvement

  • honor

    Bellman Prize

    International Award
  • honor

    The Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists from the New York Academy of Sciences

    National Award
  • activity

    Evolutionary Medicine

    Research
  • activity

    Tsetse

    Research
  • honor

    Guggenheim Fellowship

    Unknown
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Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases

PO Box 208034, 60 College Street

New Haven, CT 06520-8034

United States

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    New Haven, CT 06510

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