Professor David Dowdy

David Dowdy, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, USA) is an infectious disease epidemiologist with interdisciplinary expertise in epidemiology, health economics, and mathematical modeling. His content area of greatest familiarity is mathematical and simulation modeling of interventions to control tuberculosis (TB) and HIV. As a health economist, he has conducted economic evaluations of numerous HIV and TB-related interventions in over ten countries across sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, and has experience in empiric costing from the patient and health system perspective as well as preference elicitation using discrete choice methodology. Dr Dowdy has similarly conducted a variety of epidemiological studies – from pragmatic cluster randomized trials to detailed observational studies of transmission – to inform local decision-making and more effective decision modeling. He has used such models to evaluate the epidemiological and economic impact of improved TB and TB/HIV diagnostic and therapeutic strategies, both locally and globally. Dr Dowdy serves on the steering committee of the Gates Foundation-funded TB Modeling and Analysis Consortium, is an active member of the Johns Hopkins Center for TB Research and the Uganda Tuberculosis Implementation Research Consortium (U-TIRC).