Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Director, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics
Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
I am Professor of Epidemiology with primary appointment in the Department of Epidemiology and an affiliated appointment in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, where my wet lab is located. I direct the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, a center of excellence funded by the MIDAS program of NIH/NIGMS. I am also the Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Concentration in Infectious Disease Epidemiology.
B.A., 1991, Philosophy
Yale University
D.Phil, 1995, Zoology
University of Oxford
Lipsitch M, Bassett MT, Brownstein JS, Elliott P, Eyre D, Grabowski MK, Hay JA, Johansson MA, Kissler SM, Larremore DB, Layden JE, Lessler J, Lynfield R, MacCannell D, Madoff LC, Metcalf CJE, Meyers LA, Ofori SK, Quinn C, Bento AI, Reich NG, Riley S, Rosenfeld R, Samore MH, Sampath R, Slayton RB, Swerdlow DL, Truelove S, Varma JK, Grad YH.
Front Public Health. 2024. 12:1408193. PMID: 39076420
Chin T, Foxman EF, Watkins TA, Lipsitch M.
mBio. 2024 Jul 17. 15(7):e0065824. PMID: 38847531
Bi Q, Dickerman BA, Nguyen HQ, Martin ET, Gaglani M, Wernli KJ, Balasubramani GK, Flannery B, Lipsitch M, Cobey S.
J Infect Dis. 2024 Apr 30. PMID: 38687898
Lipsitch M, Grad Y.
NEJM Evid. 2024 May. 3(5):EVIDra2300271. PMID: 38815175
Lewnard JA, Mahale P, Malden D, Hong V, Ackerson BK, Lewin BJ, Link-Gelles R, Feldstein LR, Lipsitch M, Tartof SY.
medRxiv. 2024 Apr 19. PMID: 38699313
Bi Q, Dickerman BA, Nguyen HQ, Martin ET, Gaglani M, Wernli KJ, Balasubramani GK, Flannery B, Lipsitch M, Cobey S.
medRxiv. 2024 Apr 10. PMID: 37016669
Lipsitch M, Inglesby TV, Cicero A, Relman DA.
J Virol. 2024 Apr 16. 98(4):e0006124. PMID: 38477584
Olejarz JW, Roster KIO, Kissler SM, Lipsitch M, Grad YH.
Epidemics. 2024 Mar. 46:100750. PMID: 38394927
Richard DM, Lipsitch M.
Int J Epidemiol. 2024 Feb 01. 53(1). PMID: 38145617
Raphson L, Lipsitch M.
Epidemiology. 2024 May 01. 35(3):372-376. PMID: 38300113
A federal policy set to go into effect in May 2025 would go a long way toward improving oversight of risky virus research, according to a New York Times opinion piece co-authored by Harvard Chan School's Marc Lipsitch.
Marc Lipsitch, professor of epidemiology and director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard Chan School, discusses key takeaways from a new report that makes recommendations on strategies for conducting research on dangerous pathogens.
In the wake of the World Health Organization’s declaration on May 5 that it was ending the COVID global health emergency, experts acknowledged that the disease now poses much less of threat than it has over the past…
Harvard Chan School’s Alberto Ascherio and Marc Lipsitch are among 46 individuals in life sciences named to the 2023 STATUS List—a group of leaders in public health, medicine, biotechnology, and more, recognized by STAT for their contributions to…
Harvard Chan School experts offer comments and context about the coronavirus in a variety of media outlets.
