2019 Charles C. Shepard Science Awards
Unlocking Big Data and Analytics for Public Health
The 2019 Charles C. Shepard Science Awards were held on June 26, 2019.
Winners
Assessment
Samir K Saha, Stephanie J Schrag Shams El Arifeen, Luke C Mullany, Mohammad Shahidul Islam, Nong Shang, Shamim A Qazi, Anita K M Zaidi, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Anuradha Bose, Pinaki Panigrahi, Sajid B Soofi, Nicholas E Connor, Dipak K Mitra, Rita Isaac, Jonas M Winchell, Melissa L Arvay, Maksuda Islam, Yasir Shafiq, Imran Nisar, Benazir Baloch, Furqan Kabir, Murtaza Ali, Maureen H Diaz, Radhanath Satpathy, Pritish Nanda, Bijaya K Padhi, Sailajanandan Parida, Aneeta Hotwani, M Hasanuzzaman, Sheraz Ahmed, Mohammad Belal Hossain, Shabina Ariff, Imran Ahmed, Syed Mamun Ibne Moin, Arif Mahmud, Jessica L Waller, Iftekhar Rafiqullah, Mohammad A Quaiyum, Nazma Begum, Veeraraghavan Balaji, Jasmin Halen, A S M Nawshad Uddin Ahmed, Martin W Weber Davidson, H Hamer, Patricia L Hibberd, Qazi Sadeq-ur Rahman, Venkat Raghava Mogan, Tanvir Hossain, Lesley McGee, Shalini Anandan, Anran Liu, Kalpana Panigrahi, Asha Mary Abraham, and Abdullah H Baqui
Causes and incidence of community-acquired serious infections among young children in south Asia (ANISA): an observational cohort study
Lancet 2018; 392(10142): 145-159
Data Methods and Study Design
Diba Khana, Lauren M. Rossen, Holly Hedegaard, and Margaret Warner
A Bayesian Spatial Temporal Modeling Approach to Mapping Geographic Variation in Mortality Rates for Subnational areas with R-INLA
Journal of Data Science 2018; 16(1): 147-182

Director of Health Informatics as Georgia Tech’s College of Computing, School of Computational Science & Engineering
Laboratory Science
Markus H. Kainulainen, Jessica R. Spengler, Stephen R. Welch, JoAnn D. Coleman-McCray, Jessica R. Harmon, John D. Klena, Stuart T. Nichol, Cesar G. Albarino, and Christina F. Spiropoulou
Use of a Scalable Replicon-Particle Vaccine to Protect Against Lethal Lassa Virus Infection in the Guinea Pig Model
Journal of Infectious Diseases 2018; 217(12): 1957-1966
Prevention and Control
Khalequ Zaman, Concepcion F. Estivariz, Michelle Morales, Mohammad Yunus, Cynthia J. Snider, Howard E. Gary, Jr., William C. Weldon, M. Steven Oberste, Steven G. Wassilak, Mark A. Pallansch, and Abhijeet Anand
Immunogenicity of type 2 monovalent oral and inactivated poliovirus vaccines for type 2 poliovirus outbreak response: an open-label, randomized controlled trial
Lancet Infectious Diseases 2018; 18(6): 657-665
Lifetime Scientific Achievement
Rima F. Khabbaz, M.D.
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID)