Professor Laith Abu-Raddad

Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar, Cornell University, USA

Biography

Laith J. Abu-Raddad is Professor of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Cornell University, where he leads the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group and directs the Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Biomathematics Research Core. He is an epidemiologist whose research focuses on infectious disease transmission, surveillance, epidemiologic methods, and mathematical modelling to inform public health policy and practice.

His work spans a range of infectious diseases, including sexually transmitted infections, COVID-19, hepatitis C virus, and tuberculosis, with a particular emphasis on generating evidence for disease prevention and control strategies.

He has advised international organizations, including WHO, UNAIDS, the World Bank, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, on guideline development, programme planning, and priority-setting for public health interventions.