Professor
Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Qatar
Laith Abu-Raddad is a Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar of Cornell University. He is also the director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Disease Epidemiology Analytics. He has led multiple high-impact studies published in journals including New England Journal of Medicine, Science, Lancet journals, JAMA, Nature Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Hepatology, PLOS Medicine, and Clinical Infectious Diseases. He has worked on COVID-19, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, hepatitis C virus, tuberculosis, diabetes, and SARS. He is or has been the principal investigator of different projects funded by different funding agencies, and has acted as an expert advisor or a consultant for various international organizations. His research work has been key in the formulation of public health policy at the national, regional, and international levels. Findings of his research studies have received wide coverage in international press.