Dr. John Glasser

Mathematical Epidemiologist

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

“Modeling for Public Health Decision-Making”

Dr. Glasser will define mechanistic modeling, outline its history in public health and describe several recent collaborations with Zhilan Feng, Professor of Mathematics at Purdue: evaluations of the global response to SARS, impact of heterogeneity in vaccine coverage due to personal-belief exemptions in the US, vaccination during the H1N1 pandemic, also in the US, and strategies for eliminating measles and controlling rubella in China.

John Glasser studied biology, population biology, and epidemiology and biostatistics at Princeton, Duke and Harvard Universities, respectively. He was an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer in Reproductive Health and a post-doctoral fellow with Richard Levins in mathematical biology at Harvard. Since 2000, he has assisted in designing or evaluating and occasionally improving vaccination programs at home and abroad by modeling influenza, measles, pertussis, rubella, smallpox, and simultaneously, varicella and zoster. He led the CDC modeling team that helped the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, to formulate the US government’s response in the event that smallpox were reintroduced by terrorists, and has served as a technical consultant to the CDCs in Beijing, China and Taiwan, the Ministries of Health in Costa Rica and the Brazilian State of São Paulo, the Public Health Institutes in Romania and Sweden, and the World Health Organization. Currently, he serves as a mathematical epidemiologist in the Division of Viral Diseases, NCIRD, and a member of the graduate faculties of Population Biology, Ecology and Evolution at Emory and Mathematics at Purdue.

PI4D Seminar

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

1:30 – 2:30 in Drug Discovery

first floor conference room