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)
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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
- PhDUniversity of Oxford (2002)
Honors & Recognition
| Award | Date |
|---|---|
| Bellman Prize | 2013 |
| The Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists from the New York Academy of Sciences | 2012 |
| Guggenheim Fellowship | 2006 |
| MacMillan Center Director’s Award | 2006 |
| Fellowship from Institute for Advanced Studies, Berlin | 2006 |
| Young Investigator’s Prize, American Society of Naturalists | 2005 |