Overview
Prof. Laith J. Abu-Raddad is Professor of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Cornell University, where he founded and leads the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group and directs the Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Biomathematics Research Core. He has held academic and research positions at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the University of Washington, Imperial College London, and Osaka University, and previously served as Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Disease Epidemiology Analytics.
His research focuses on infectious disease epidemiology, quantitative methods, and population health, with emphasis on understanding the epidemiologic and ecological processes shaping disease transmission and informing public health policy. His work spans a broad range of infectious diseases, including COVID-19, HIV, other sexually transmitted infections, viral hepatitis, tuberculosis, influenza, and other respiratory infections. His methodological expertise includes epidemiologic study design, biostatistics, mathematical modeling, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and intervention impact assessment.
Professor Abu-Raddad has established an internationally recognized research program with extensive contributions to public health research and policy. His work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including Nature, Science, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet journals, JAMA, and Nature Medicine, and has informed public health strategies at national, regional, and global levels. He has served as an expert advisor to organizations including WHO, UNAIDS, the World Bank, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.