Epidemiologists Epidemiologists Anderson Gray McKendrick ( September 8, 1876 - May 30, 1943) Scottish physician and epidemiologist pioneered the use of mathematical methods in epidemiology. Irwin (see below) commented on the quality of his work, "Although an amateur, he was a brilliant mathematician, with a far greater insight than many professionals." ...more on Wikipedia about "Anderson Gray McKendrick"
Professor Archie Cochrane (1908-1988) was born in Kirklands, Galashiels, Scotland. He qualified in 1938 at University College Hospital, London, at University College London and joined the Medical Research Council's Pneumoconiosis Unit at Llandough Hospital, a part of Cardiff University School of Medicine in 1948. Here he began a series of studies on the health of the population of Rhondda Fach — studies which pioneered the use of randomised controlled trials (RCTs). ...more on Wikipedia about "Archie Cochrane"
Austin Bradford Hill ( July 8, 1897 - April 18, 1991), English epidemiologist and statistician, pioneered the randomised clinical trial and, together with Richard Doll, was the first to demonstrate the connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Austin Bradford Hill"
Donald "D.A." Ainslie Henderson (born September 7, 1928) is an epidemiologist, whose work was vital in the international effort during the 1960s to eradicate smallpox. As of 2005, he is employed at the University of Pittsburgh, where he is a Resident Scholar at the Center for Biosecurity. ...more on Wikipedia about "Donald Henderson"
Eric Fombonne, MD, FRCP, (b. 1954, Paris, France) is a professor of psychiatry and an epidemiologist. Dr. Fombonne directs the child psychiatry division at McGill University in Canada and the psychiatry department at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, where he played a key role in the launch of its autism clinic. Fombonne is also the Canada Research Chair in child psychiatry. His research focuses on epidemiological investigations of childhood mental illness and related risk factors, with a particular focus on the epidemiology of autism. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eric Fombonne"
Hildrus Augustus Poindexter was a bacteriologist who studied the epidemiology of tropical diseases. Poindexter was born in 1901, the son of tenant farmers in rural Alabama. He attended Lincoln University, graduating in 1924, then went on to Harvard Medical School in 1929 with a PhD in Microbiology. As a noted bacteriologist, Dr. Poindexter became the head of the Medical College at Howard University in 1934. In 1948, Senior Surgeon Poindexter was appointed director of the Mission to Liberia, whose goal was to help the Liberian government in sanitation planning and the control of infectious diseases. In the 1940s and 1950s Poindexter’s name became virtually synonymous with study of malaria and other tropical diseases. Dr. Poindexter published his autobiography, My World of Reality, in 1973. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hildrus Poindexter"
The English physician John Snow (1813-1858) was a leader in the adoption of anaesthesia and medical hygiene, and is often considered one of the fathers of epidemiology for his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in Soho, Westminster, England in 1854. ...more on Wikipedia about "John Snow (physician)" shortopedia Is Good For You. shortopedia
Maurice Stevenson Bartlett ( June 18, 1910 - January 8, 2002) was an English statistician who made particular contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns. He is also known for his work in the theory of statistical inference and in multivariate analysis. ...more on Wikipedia about "M. S. Bartlett"
Major Greenwood ( August 9, 1880 - October 5, 1949) English epidemiologist and statistician. ...more on Wikipedia about "Major Greenwood"
Mark R. Geier, MD, PhD, (b. 1948, Washington, D.C.) is a medical doctor based in Silver Spring, Maryland, who also holds a doctorate in genetics and is board-certified in medical genetics and forensic medicine. He was a researcher at the National Institutes of Health for ten years and previously was a professor at Johns Hopkins University. He has studied vaccines for more than 30 years and has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers on vaccine safety, efficacy, contamination and policy. In 1970, while at the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Geier co-authored a paper published in Nature reporting the first sucessful genetic engineering experiment in which bacteriophage Lambda which carried the galactose operon was used to correct the inability of cells in tissue culture from a patient with galactosemia to metabolise the milk sugar galactose. This work received world-wide aclaim in the scientific press and in the news media and resulted in a personal call of congratulation from then President Richard Nixon. In 1973 Dr. Geier was an author of another paper in the Nature which reported the spleen, which was thought to be mostly vestigual in humans, in fact played a critical role in immunity by maintaining intact antigen allowing for a more robust immune response which was especially important the vaccination process. Dr Geier was a co-author on a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine which futher discussed and extended the observations on the critical role that the spleen plays in response to vaccines and other immune challenges. In 1973, Dr. Geier after having been part of the group that discovered that there was widespread bacterial virus contamination in US vaccines, presented a paper "A model system for the evaluation of the fate of phage in contaminated vaccines: Physiologic disposition of bacteriophage in mice." at the Proceedings of the Workshop of Problems of Phage Contamination FDA. In 1978 Dr. Geier published a study "Endotoxins in commercial vaccine." in Applied and Environmental Microbiology which found high levels of endotoxin in commercial vaccines especailly in whole cell Diptheria, Tetanus, Pertussis (DTP) vaccine. Following this paper, Dr. Geier worked for many years to help convince the public health authorities to switch from whole cell DTP to the much safer DTaP which contained a highly purified form of Pertussis vaccine. In 1991 the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences,(IOM) invited Dr. Geier to address them on the toxins contained in DTP vaccine and the expected time frame over which they could be expected to work. Dr. Geier presented evidence to the IOM that the expected time of vulnerability was seven days. In 1993 the IOM published that the evidence was compatible whole Pertussis vaccine causing permanent brain damage in otherwise apparently health children if the first symptoms of neurological damage occurred in the first seven days following the vaccination. The US began to switch to the far safer DTaP in 1993 and as of 2002 the US no longer used any whole cell DTP vaccine. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mark Geier"
Ralph S. Paffenbarger, Jr., MD, Phd, is a professor at both Stanford University School of Medicine and Harvard University School of Public Health. A nationally known speaker, Dr. Paffenbarger is renowned for his classic study on the improvement in longevity though regular lifetime physical activity, which confirmed prior evidence that more physically active people reduce their risk of heart disease and live longer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ralph Paffenbarger"
Professor Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll, KBE CH FRS ( 28 October 1912– 24 July 2005) was a British epidemiologist, physiologist, and a pioneer in the research linking smoking to health problems. He was the first in the world to prove that smoking caused lung cancer and increased the risk of heart disease. He also did pioneering work on the relationship between radiation and leukemia as well as that between asbestos and lung cancer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Richard Doll"
Professor Sir Richard Peto, FRS ( 1943- ) is Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford. ...more on Wikipedia about "Richard Peto"
Sir Ronald Ross ( May 13, 1857 – September 16, 1932) was a Scottish physician. He was born in Nepal as the son of General Sir C.C.G. Ross of the British army. He studied malaria in India as a member (1881-99) of the Indian Medical Service, was professor of tropical medicine at University College, Liverpool, from 1902, and directed the Ross Institute and Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London, from 1926. In 1934 the school was incorporated into the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. In 1898 he demonstrated the malarial parasite ( Plasmodium) in the stomach of the Anopheles mosquito; in West Africa he discovered the mosquito that transmits African fever. He received the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on malaria and was knighted in 1911. Ross was a pioneer in developing mathematical models for the study of epidemiology. He also published poems, novels, and mathematical studies. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ronald Ross"
Thomas Verstraeten, MD, MSc, is a vaccine researcher for GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals. Verstraeten previously worked for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), where his work included a major study looking for any potential links between vaccinations and adverse effects. ...more on Wikipedia about "Thomas Verstraeten"
William Farr ( November 30, 1807 - April 14, 1883) was a nineteenth century British epidemiologist, regarded as one of the founders of medical statistics. ...more on Wikipedia about "William Farr"
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