Laith Abu-Raddad, PhD
Laith Abu-Raddad is Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar. He is also the director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Disease Epidemiology Analytics. He has led multiple high-impact studies published in journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Science, Lancet journals, JAMA, Nature Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Hepatology, PLOS Medicine, and Clinical Infectious Diseases. He has worked on COVID-19, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, hepatitis C virus, tuberculosis, and SARS. He is or has been the principal investigator of numerous projects supported by multiple funding agencies, and has acted as an expert advisor or as a consultant for various international organizations. His research work has been key in the formulation of public health policy at national, regional, and international levels. Findings of his research studies have received wide coverage in the international press.