BETZ HALLORAN, MD, DSC
CIDID Director
Member, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division
Member, Public Health Sciences Division
Professor, Biostatistics, University of Washington
Adjunct Professor, Applied Mathematics and Epidemiology, University of Washington
Director and Founder, Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases, University of Washington
Other Positions
Graduate Faculty, Biostatistics, University of Washington
Education
Harvard University, Population Sciences, 1989, DSc
Harvard University, Tropical Public Health, 1985, MPH
Freie Universitat Berlin, 1983, MD
University of Oregon, 1972, BSc (General Science)
Research Interests
- Design and evaluation of vaccine field trials
- Modeling infectious disease dynamics and strategies for mitigation and control
- Causal inference in infectious diseases
- Evaluating surrogates of protection
Teaching and Mentoring Interests
- Biostatistics
- Epidemiology
- Analytic methods for infectious disease
Current Projects
- Methods for evaluating vaccine efficacy
- Containing Bioterrorist and Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Causal Inference for Infectious Disease Studies
- Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases