Martin Kulldorff

Martin Kulldorff is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a biostatistician and epidemiologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Early life and education

Kulldorff received a BSc in mathematical statistics from the Umeå University in Sweden, and his PhD in operations research from Cornell University.

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.

Kulldorff is an author of the Great Barrington Declaration, arguing for "focused protection" instead of lockdowns, and has appeared on numerous media platforms to debate the topic.[1][2][3]

References

  1. Varadarajan, Tunku (2020-10-23). "Opinion | Epidemiologists Stray From the Covid Herd". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
  2. "Who Are the Scientists Behind the Great Barrington Declaration?". www.medpagetoday.com. 2020-10-19. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
  3. 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.


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