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Caitlin Rivers, PhD
Caitlin Rivers, an expert in disease outbreaks, is a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Natalie Dean, PhD
Natalie Dean, who researches emerging infectious diseases and vaccine study design, is an assistant professor of biostatistics at the University of Florida.
Helen Branswell
Helen Branswell is a senior writer in infectious diseases at Stat. She first reported on a "mysterious and growing cluster of unexplained pneumonia cases in the Chinese city of Wuhan" on Jan. 4, 2020.
Florian Krammer, PhD
Florian Krammer is a professor in the Department of Microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai whose Twitter bio, appropriately, reads "Viruses, viruses, viruses and vaccines."
Akiko Iwasaki, PhD
Akiko Iwasaki is a professor of immunobiology and molecular, cellular and developmental biology at the Yale School of Medicine. She urged robust social distancing measures early on, before most states and cities instituted shutdowns.
Trevor Bedford, PhD
Trevor Bedford researches viruses and immunity at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He tracks the evolution of the new coronavirus around the U.S.
Scott Gottlieb, MD
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a former commissioner of the FDA, is an active tweeter and commenter on the latest coronavirus research and how to responsibly reopen shutdown parts of the nation.
National Institutes of Health
Official Twitter account of the National Institutes of Health. NIH...Turning Discovery Into Health
Eric Feigl-Ding, MD
The U.S. epidemiologist and public health expert is one of the most frequent posters on the issue of coronavirus. As well as discussing things like social distancing and travel considerations on the podcast The Heat, Dr Feigl-Ding also uses data visualisations to map the global trends of the virus.
Dr Alexandra Phelan
Dr. Alexandra L. Phelan, S.J.D., LL.M., LL.B., is a member of the Center for Global Health Science and Security and a Faculty Research Instructor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Georgetown University. On March 16, she was appointed to serve on the National Academies Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats to provide guidance on the coronavirus outbreak.
