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Biology Seminar Series: Marc Lipsitch - "Drugs, vaccines, and coexistence: toward a comprehensive understanding of population dynamics in Streptococcus pneumoniae under selection by treatments, host immunity, and other factors"
Marc Lipsitch is Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. He directs the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics and the Interdisciplinary Program on Infectious Disease Epidemiology there. In 2021 he was founding Director for Science of the US CDC's Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics, where he is now Senior Advisor. His scientific research concerns the effect of naturally acquired host immunity, vaccine-induced immunity, and other public health interventions on the population biology of pathogens and the consequences for human health He has authored 400 peer-reviewed publications on antimicrobial resistance, epidemiologic methods, mathematical modeling of infectious disease transmission, pathogen population genomics and evolution, research ethics, biosafety/security, and the evolutionary immunoepidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Dr. Lipsitch is a leader in research and scientific communication on COVID-19. He received his BA in philosophy from Yale and his DPhil in zoology from Oxford. He did postdoctoral work at Emory University and CDC. He is a member of the American Academy of Microbiology and the National Academy of Medicine.