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Alison Galvani, PhD

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)

Contact Info

Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases

PO Box 208034, 60 College Street

New Haven, CT 06520-8034

United States

About

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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.

Appointments

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 Research Interests

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

Public Health Interests

Epidemiology Methods; Global Health; Health Care Management; Health Policy; Infectious Diseases; Maternal & Child Health; Modeling; COVID-19

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Alison Galvani's published research.

Publications

2024

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

  • honor

    Bellman Prize

  • honor

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

  • activity

    Evolutionary Medicine

  • activity

    Tsetse

  • honor

    Guggenheim Fellowship

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Mailing Address

Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases

PO Box 208034, 60 College Street

New Haven, CT 06520-8034

United States

Administrative Support

Locations

  • 135 College Street

    Academic Office

    Ste 200, Rm 235

    New Haven, CT 06510