Laith Abu-Raddad is a Professor of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar, Cornell University, and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the College of Health & Life Sciences, HBKU. Laith’s expertise is in infectious disease epidemiology with emphasis on quantitative methods including mathematical modeling and biostatistics.

He has led several high-impact studies at the international and regional levels. He has published over 350 publications with a citation h-index of 90 and 87,250 number of citations. His scientific research has been published in journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Lancet Infectious Diseases, Lancet Microbe, JAMA, Nature Medicine, JAMA Internal Medicine, Nature Communications, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Hepatology, BMC Medicine, Science Translational Medicine, and AIDS.

He is or has been the principal investigator of several projects funded by various funding agencies, and has acted as an expert advisor or a consultant for several international organizations. His research work has been key in the formulation of public health policy at the regional and international levels. Findings of his research studies have received coverage in international media such as at Aljazeera, New York Times, BBC, and the Economist.