Pejman Rohani, Professor, Odum School of Ecology & Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, USA,Samuel Scarpino, Assistant Professor, Network Science Institute at Northeastern University, USA

Pej Rohani studies the population biology of infectious diseases, using quantitative methods. His research has focused on childhood infectious diseases, such as pertussis, measles and polio, as well as wildlife pathogen systems such as avian influenza viruses and vampire bat rabies. He has co-authored a book on modeling infectious diseases in addition to 125 peer-reviewed publications, including papers in Science, Nature, PNAS, PLoS Biology and Science Translational Medicine. He received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. Dr Rohani has served on advisory panels for the World Health Organization, in addition to the Institute of Medicine's panel on the Safety Outcomes of the Childhood Immunization Schedule. He is a professor of Ecology and Infectious Diseases at the University of Georgia.


Samuel V. Scarpino is a complex systems scientist investigating questions at the intersection of machine learning, network science, human behavior, and disease. His work spans a range of topics, including infectious disease modeling, non-linear forecasting, surveillance system design, and decision making under uncertainty. Dr. Scarpino's publications on Ebola, whooping cough, and influenza have been covered by the New York Times, NPR, The Economist, and the Smithsonian Magazine, among others. As a part of his research, he has developed and deployed a diverse set of public health decision support tools and does research in close association with state, national, and international public health agencies. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Network Science, Physics, and Marine & Environmental Sciences at Northeastern University. Sam earned his Ph.D. in integrative biology from The University of Texas at Austin and was a Santa Fe Institute Omidyar Fellow.

Allen, Aideen C. - School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Althouse, Ben - Institute for Disease Modeling, Seattle, USA
Amirthalingam, Gayatri - Immunisation, Hepatitis and Blood Safety Department, Public Health England, UK
Bolotin, Shelly - Applied Immunization Research, Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Borkner, Lisa - School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Brown, Colin S. - Immunisation, Hepatitis and Blood Safety Department, Public Health England, UK
Crowcroft, Natasha - Applied Immunization Research and Evaluation, Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Canada
de Melker, Hester - Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Utrecht, Netherlands
Dirix, Violette - Laboratory of Vaccinology and Mucosal Immunity, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Domenech de Celles, Matthieu - Pharmacoepidemiology & Infectious Diseases, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Gandon, Sylvain, Ecology and Evolutionary Epidemiology, CNRS, Montpellier, France
Harvill, Eric T. - Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, USA
King, Aaron A. - Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, USA
Lan, Ruiting - School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Linz, Bodo - Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, USA
Locht, Camille - Centre for Infection and Immunity of Lille, University of Lille, Lille, France
MacArthur, Iain - Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, UK
Magpantay, Felicia G. - Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
Mascart, Francoise - Laboratory of Vaccinology and Mucosal Immunity, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Maynard, Jennifer - Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA
McIntyre, Peter - School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Westmead, Australia
McVernon, Jodie - The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Miller, Elizabeth - Immunisation Hepatitis and Blood Safety Department, Public Health England, UK
Mills, Kingston H.G. - School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Misiak, Alicja - School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Nicholson, Tracy - Virus and Prion Research, United States Department of Agriculture, Ames, USA
Octavia, Sophie - School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Otero, Glen - Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Preston, Andrew - Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, UK
Helen Quinn - National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, Australia
Rohani, Pejman - Odum School of Ecology & Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, USA
Scarpino, Samuel V. - Network Science Institute, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
Skarlupka, Amanda L. - Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, USA
Skoff, Tami H. - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA
Weigand, Michael R. - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA
Wilk, Mieszko M. - School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Williams, Margaret M. - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA