Staff Bio
Marc Lipsitch, DPhil, serves as the senior advisor for the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics.
Dr. Lipsitch's earlier research focus included antimicrobial resistance, epidemiologic methods, mathematical modeling of infectious disease transmission, bacterial and human population genetics and evolution, and molecular genetics of Streptococcus pneumoniae infection and immunity.
He is also an elected member of the American Academy of Microbiology and the National Academy of Medicine.
Areas of expertise
Dr. Lipsitch is an internationally recognized expert in infectious disease transmission modeling and has been a leading scientific authority in scientific research and public communication during the COVID-19 pandemic.
His COVID-19 research has been in areas including the ethics of human challenge COVID-19 studies, transmission dynamics, basic epidemiology, clinical severity and sequelae, vaccine allocation, vaccine effectiveness, and equity.
Education
Dr. Lipsitch received his Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and Doctor of Philosophy, DPhil, from the University of Oxford. He is seconded to CDC from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he is professor of epidemiology and director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics.