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Martin Kulldorff is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a biostatistician and epidemiologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital.[1]
Early life and education
Kulldorff was born in Lund, Sweden in 1962, and grew up in Umeå, and received a BSc in mathematical statistics from Umeå University in 1984. He then moved to the United States for his postgraduate studies, obtaining a PhD in operations research from Cornell University in 1989. His PhD thesis, titled Optimal Control of Favorable Games with a Time Limit, was written under the direction of David Clay Heath.[2]
Career
Kulldorff developed a free SaTScan software program used for geographical and hospital disease surveillance as well as a TreeScan software program for data mining. He is the co-developer of the R-Sequential software program for exact sequential analysis.[citation needed]
Kulldorff is a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, arguing for "focused protection" instead of lockdowns, and has appeared on several media platforms to debate the topic.[3][4][5][6] The declaration, funded by the American Institute for Economic Research, was denounced by other scientists that found its claims implausible, including that herd immunity would occur in a timely enough fashion to be impactful, and that focused protection emphasizing primarily the most vulnerable populations would be insufficient.[4]
References
- ^ "Martin Kulldorff, PhD". Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
- ^ Martin Kulldorff at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Varadarajan, Tunku (2020-10-23). "Opinion | Epidemiologists Stray From the Covid Herd". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
- ^ a b "Who Are the Scientists Behind the Great Barrington Declaration?". www.medpagetoday.com. 2020-10-19. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
- ^ Lenzer, Jeanne (2020-10-07). "Covid-19: Group of UK and US experts argues for "focused protection" instead of lockdowns". BMJ. 371. doi:10.1136/bmj.m3908. ISSN 1756-1833. PMID 33028622.
- ^ "Anti-lockdown advocate appears on radio show that has featured Holocaust deniers". the Guardian. 2020-10-19. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
External links
- "Martin Kulldorff, PhD – Brigham And Women's Hospital". www.dfhcc.harvard.edu. Dana–Farber/Harvard Cancer Center.
- Martin Kulldorff publications indexed by Google Scholar