- John Snow
John Snow (16 March 1813 - 16 June 1858) was a British physician and a leader in the adoption of anaesthesia and medical hygiene, and is considered one of the fathers of epidemiology for his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in Soho, Westminster, England in 1854.
- Richard Doll
Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll CH OBE FRS (28 October 1912-24 July 2005) was a British physiologist who became the foremost epidemiologist of the 20th century, turning the subject into a rigorous science. He was a pioneer in research linking smoking to health problems. With Ernst Wynder, Bradford Hill and Evarts Graham, he was the first in the modern world to prove that smoking caused lung cancer and increased the risk of heart disease.
- George Carlo
George Louis Carlo (b. August 24, 1953) is an American epidemiologist, author, and attorney. He is best known as one of the most prominent scientists investigating the possible negative health effects of cellular phones. He earned his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees (the latter in 1979) from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York and earned a JD from George Washington University. He is a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology, …
- Richard Peto
Sir Richard Peto, FRS (born 1943) is Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford. He attended Richard Taunton's School in Southampton and subsequently studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University. His career has included important collaborations with Richard Doll beginning at the Medical Research Council Statistical Research Unit in London. He set up the Clinical Trial Services Unit in Oxford in 1975 and is currently co-director.
- Devra Davis
Devra Davis is an epidemiologist and the author of "When Smoke Ran Like Water", which was a finalist for the National Book award in 2002. Davis is currently the director of the Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, and Visiting Professor at Carnegie Mellon's Heinz School. A former Scholar in Residence at the National Academies of Science, …
- Archie Cochrane
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).
- Larry Brilliant
Dr. Lawrence (Larry) Brilliant is a medical doctor, epidemiologist, technologist, author and philanthropist. Born in Detroit, Michigan (May 5, 1944), he received his undergraduate training as well as his MPH (Masters in Public Health) from the University of Michigan and his M.D. from Wayne State University. He moved to California for his internship at the Pacific Medical Center, and developed thyroid cancer from which he recovered.
- David Graham
David J. Graham, M.D., M.P.H., is an American epidemiologist who is currently the Associate Director at the Food and Drug Administration's Office of Drug Safety. In November 2004, Graham spoke out against the policies at the Food and Drug Administration, and has reported that since taking this whistleblower stance, his superiors have tried to censure him. Graham has spent his career at the FDA studying the safety of drugs, …
- Roy Anderson
Professor Sir Roy Malcolm Anderson FRS is a leading British expert on epidemiology. He has mathematically modelled the spread of diseases such as new variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease and AIDS. Roy Anderson was born in 1947. He gained a BSc in zoology at Imperial College and a PhD in parasitology in 1971. The majority of Roy Anderson's early career was at Imperial College, becoming a full professor by 1984.
- Austin Bradford Hill
Austin Bradford Hill (July 8, 1897 - April 18, 1991), English epidemiologist and statistician, pioneered the randomized clinical trial and, together with Richard Doll, was the first to demonstrate the connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer.
- Mark Geier
Dr. Mark R. Geier has an MD., with a PhD in genetics. Dr. Geier is president of the Genetic Centers of America, president of the Institute of Chronic Illnesses and has been in clinical practice for more than 25 years. He was a researcher at the National Institutes of Health for 10 years. Dr. Geier was also a professor at the Johns Hopkins University and at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
- Oswaldo Cruz
Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz, better know as Oswaldo Cruz, (b. August 5, 1872, São Luíz de Paraitinga, São Paulo state, Brazil; d. February 11, 1917, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro state) was a Brazilian physician, bacteriologist, epidemiologist and public health officer and the founder of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute.
- Alice Stewart
Dr Alice Mary Stewart ( 4 October 1906, Sheffield, England to 23 June 2002, Oxford, England) was a physician and epidemiologist specialising in social medicine and the effects of radiation on health. Her pioneering study of x-rays as a cause of childhood cancer, which she worked on from 1953 until 1956 as a member of the department of social and preventive medicine at Oxford University Medical School, was initially regarded as unsound, …
- Fiona Stanley
Professor Stanley is the Founding Director of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research; Executive Director of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth; and Professor, School of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Western Australia. Professor Stanley was also Australian of the Year in 2003.
- William Foege
William Foege, MD, MPH is an American epidemiologist who had worked extensively with smallpox, particularly its control in Nigeria. He was born in Chewelah, a small town in Washington state. His father was a Lutheran minister. In his younger days he was inspired by Albert Schweitzer. He graduated from Pacific Lutheran University, completed his M.D. at the University of Washington and his Master's degree in public health from Harvard University.
- William Farr
William Farr (November 30, 1807 - April 14, 1883) was a nineteenth century British epidemiologist, regarded as one of the founders of medical statistics.
- Eric Fombonne
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.
- Ronald Ross
Sir Ronald Ross was an Indian physician of Scottish origin. He was born in Almora, India as the son of General Sir C.C.G. Ross of the British Army. Prior to joining the Indian Medical Service in 1881, Ross completed his study of medicine at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London in 1875 and qualified as MRCS and LSA. He studied malaria between 1881 and 1899. He worked on malaria in Calcutta at the Presidency General Hospital.
- Aileen Plant
Professor Aileen Plant was a leading Australian infectious diseases epidemiologist. She was professor of international health at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia. She died suddenly at the age of 58 in Indonesia on 27 Mar 2007. Aileen was born in the Victorian country town of Warrigal, the fourth of eight children. Her parents had a car dealership and petrol station.
- David Snowdon
David A. Snowdon(1952 –) is an epidemiologist and professor of neurology at the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging at the University of Kentucky. His research interests include antioxidants and aging, and the neuropathology of Alzheimer's disease, especially predictive factors in early life and the role of brain infarction. He is the director of the Nun Study, …
- C. Arden Pope
C. Arden Pope III, is an American professor of economics at Brigham Young University. He received his B.S. degree from Brigham Young University in 1978 and his Ph.D. in economics and statistics from Iowa State University in 1981. Although his research includes many papers on topics in the fields in which he was trained—environmental economics, resource economics, …
- Don Francis
Don Francis is an American epidemiologist who worked on the Ebola outbreak in Africa in the late 1970s, and helped discover HIV and AIDS. He retired from the U.S. Public Health Service in 1992, after 21 years of service. According to him, the White House (then under the administration of George H.W. Bush) wanted him fired, but in order to evade controversy he quietly "retired". He currently lives in San Francisco, California.
- Donald Henderson
Donald Ainslie Henderson, known as D.A. Henderson, (born September 7, 1928) is an American physician and 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 of UPMC.
- Thomas Verstraeten
Thomas Verstraeten, MD, MSc, is a vaccine researcher for GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals. Verstraeten previously worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where his work included a major study looking for any potential links between vaccinations and adverse effects. Dr. Verstraeten was the lead author of an influential 2003 CDC vaccine study, …
- Thomas Francis Jr.
Dr. Thomas Francis, Jr. was an American physician, virologist, and epidemiologist. Francis was the first person to isolate influenza virus in America, and in 1940 showed that there are other strains of influenza, and took part in the development of influenza vaccines. As director of the University of Michigan Poliomyelitis Vaccine Evaluation Center, he conducted the epidemiology studies prior to the release of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine.
- John Frank
John Frank, MD, MSc, FRCPC is a Canadian epidemiologist. He was trained in medicine and community medicine at the University of Toronto, in family medicine at McMaster University, and in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He was the founding Director of Research at the Institute for Work & Health in Toronto from 1991 until 1997, and is currently a Senior Scientist at that Institute. Dr.
- Joseph Goldberger
Joseph Goldberger, M.D. (July 16, 1874-January 17, 1929) was an epidemiologist in the United States Public Health Service (PHS) and an advocate for scientific and social recognition of the links between poverty and disease.
- Ralph Paffenbarger
Ralph S. Paffenbarger, Jr., MD, DrPH, ScD (b. October 21, 1922 - d. July 9, 2007, Santa Fe, New Mexico) was an epidemiologist, ultramarathoner, and professor at both Stanford University School of Medicine and Harvard University School of Public Health. Dr. Paffenbarger was internationally renowned for his classic study on the improvement in longevity though regular lifetime physical activity, …
- Major Greenwood
Major Greenwood (August 9, 1880 - October 5, 1949) was an English epidemiologist and statistician. Major Greenwood junior was born in Shoreditch in London's East End, the only child of a doctor in general practice there. He was educated on the classical side at Merchant Taylors' School and went on to study medicine at University College London and the London Hospital.
- Zsuzsanna Jakab
Zsuzsanna Jakab (b. 17 May, 1951) is, since March 2005 the Hungarian head of the newly formed European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) located in Stockholm (Solna Municipality), Sweden. She is Europe's top health official, taking on the task of defending the European Union against infectious diseases.
- Anderson Gray McKendrick
Anderson Gray McKendrick (September 8, 1876 - May 30, 1943) was a 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." McKendrick was born in Edinburgh the fifth and last child of John Gray McKendrick FRS, a distinguished physiologist.
- R. William Field
R. William Field is an American Academic Scholar and Professor in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health and Department of Epidemiology within the College of Public Health at the University of Iowa.
- Adolfo Lutz
Adolfo Lutz was a Brazilian physician, 1855-1940, father of tropical medicine and medical zoology in Brazil, and a pioneer epidemiologist and researcher in infectious diseases. Lutz was born in Rio de Janeiro, on December 18, 1855, to a family of Swiss origins. He studied medicine in Switzerland, graduating in 1879 at the University of Bern. After graduation he went on to study experimental medicine techniques in several center in London, …
- Theobald Smith
Theobald Smith (July 31, 1859 - December 10, 1934) was a pioneering epidemiologist and pathologist and is widely-considered to be America's first internationally-significant medical research scientist.
- Wolf Szmuness
Wolf Szmuness was a Polish epidemiologist who has been accused of targeting the release of the HIV/AIDS virus among gay men in America. He is featured prominently in AIDS conspiracy theories about the origin of the virus. There is no evidence that the conspiracy theories are true.
- Eva Harris
Eva Harris is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, and the founder and president of the Sustainable Sciences Institute. Harris has been described as an “activist researcher” because she focuses her research efforts on combating diseases that primarily afflict people in developing nations.
- David F. Duncan
David F. Duncan, Dr. P.H. was Born in Kansas City, Missouri on June 26, 1947. He is President of Duncan & Associates, a firm providing consultation on research design and data collection for behavioral and policy studies. He is also Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health at Brown University School of Medicine. His education included a B.A. in psychology from the University of Missouri at Kansas City, …
- Janet Darbyshire
Janet Darbyshire, OBE is a British epidemiologist and science administrator. Darbyshire joined the Medical Research Council (MRC) in 1974, first co-ordinating clinical trials and epidemiological studies of tuberculosis, asthma and other respiratory diseases in the UK and East Africa for the MRC Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases Unit. She became the head of the MRC HIV Clinical Trials Centre when it was founded in 1989, …
- Leon S. Robertson
Leon S. Robertson is the president of Nanlee Research and a retired injury epidemiologist. From 1978 to 1998, Robertson occupied various positions in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies and the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University. He previously served on the faculties of Harvard University Medical School (1966-70) and Wake Forest University (1962-65).
- Roxana Moslehi
Roxana Moslehi, Ph.D. is a genetic epidemiologist. Most of her research is dedicated to the study of cancer and cancer precursors. Born in Iran and raised in Canada, she is currently an assistant professor in Epidemiology and Statistics at the State University of New York (SUNY).