Benjamin Lopman

Ben Lopman, PhD, MSc, is a Professor of Epidemiology, Global Health, and Environmental Health at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health. His research focuses on vaccines for enteric and respiratory pathogens, particularly diarrheal diseases caused by rotavirus and norovirus. His team conducts field studies and uses statistical analysis together with dynamic mathematical modeling to address policy-relevant public health questions. He is the Principal Investigator of multiple NIH, NSF, CDC, WHO, and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grants and has authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications.

Before joining Emory in 2016, Dr. Lopman served as an epidemiologist with the CDC’s Division of Viral Diseases, leading programs on enteric viruses and vaccine epidemiology. He earned his undergraduate degree in Microbiology from the University of Florida, followed by a Master’s degree from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a PhD while working at the UK’s Health Protection Agency, and a post-doc at Imperial College London. From 2007 to 2009, he was a faculty member at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Dr. Lopman directs the Emory Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Training Hub (CIDMATH), part of CDC’s national InsightNet, and co-directs the Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases (SISMID) and the Emory Vaccinology Training Program (VTP). He is an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

For a full list of publications see PubMed or Google Scholar profile.