ISSN: 2155-9899
Laith J. Abu-Raddad
Associate Professor
Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group, Weill Cornell Medical College - Qatar, Cornell University.
Qatar
Dr. Abu-Raddad is an Associate Professor of Healthcare Policy and Research, Assistant Dean for Extramural Research Funding, Director of the Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Biomathematics Research Core at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q), and the Principal Investigator of the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group. He focuses on studying the epidemiological factors and population processes shaping infectious disease spread in human and animal populations. He joined WCMC-Q in 2008 as an Assistant Professor. He held positions as Assistant Professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; as Research Scientist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington; as Postdoctoral Research Associate at Imperial College London, United Kingdom; and as NSF-JSPS Postdoctoral Research Associate at Osaka University, Japan. He completed his Ph.D. study in Computational and Mathematical Physics at Florida State University. He serves as a consultant or advisory member for a number of key public health projects for organizations such as the World Bank, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, World Health Organization, and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
HIV, Co-infection, Immune system, Herpesvirus 2, Malaria