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Longini, Ira

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Profile Information

Title
Professor
Full Titles

Full Professor of Biostatistics

Co-director, Center for Statistics and Quantitative Infectious Diseases (CSQUID), Emerging Pathogens Institute

Phone
352-294-1938 or 352-273-6711
Email Address
ilongini@ufl.edu
Fax
352-294-1930
Website
http://www.csquid.org/ira/index.html
Address

Department of Biostatistics
College of Public Health and Health Profession and College of Medicine
P.O. Box 117450
22 Buckman Drive, 452 Dauer Hall
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611

Education

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota: Ph.D., Biometry/Biomathematics- 1977

University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida: M.S., Operations Research/Statistics - 1973

University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida: B.S., Engineering/Operations Research- 1971

Professional Biography

Dr Longini received his Ph.D. in Biometry and Biomathematics at the University of Minnesota in 1977. He began his career with the International Center for Medical Research and Training and the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia, where he worked on tropical infectious disease problems and taught courses in biomathematics. Following that, he was a professor biostatistics at the University of Michigan, Emory University and the University of Washington. He currently is a professor of biostatistics at the University of Florida and Co-director of the Center for Statistical and Quantitative Infectious Diseases (CSQUID), the Emerging Pathogens Institute, at the University of Florida. His research interests are in the area of stochastic processes applied to epidemiological problems. He has specialized in the mathematical and statistical theory of epidemics--a process that involves constructing and analyzing mathematical models of disease transmission, disease progression and the analysis of infectious disease data based on these models. He works extensively in the design and analysis of vaccine and infectious disease prevention trials and observational studies. Dr. Longini has worked on the analysis of epidemics of influenza, HIV, tuberculosis, cholera, dengue fever, malaria, rhinovirus, rotavirus, measles and other infectious agents. Dr. Longini is also working with the DHHS, WHO, the CDC and other public health interests on mathematical and statistical models for the control of a possible bioterrorist attack with an infectious agent such as smallpox, and other natural infectious disease threats such as pandemic influenza or another SARS-like infectious agent. Dr. Longini is author or coauthor of over 140 scientific papers and he has won a number of awards for excellence in research, including the Howard M. Temin Award in Epidemiology for “Scientific Excellence in the Fight against HIV/AIDS.” He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

Expertise

Analysis of infectious disease transmission and control; stochastic processes; biostatistics; epidemiology

CV

  • application/pdf iconIra_Longini_cv_2011July.pdf

Publications

  • Chao, D.L., Halloran, M.E., Longini, I.M.: Vaccination strategies for epidemic cholera in Haiti with implications for the developing world. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108, 7081-85 (2011)

  • Yang, Y., Halloran, M.E., Daniels, M.J., Longini, I.M., Cumming, D.A.T. and Burke, D.S.: Modeling competing infectious pathogens from a Bayesian perspective: with application to influenza studies with incomplete laboratory results. Journal American Statistical Association 105, 1310-22 (2010)

  • Matrajt, L. and Longini I.M.: Optimizing vaccine allocation at different points in time during an epidemic. PLoS One 10.1371/journal.pone.0013767 (2010).

  • Halloran, M.E., Longini, I.M. and Struchiner, C.J.: The Design and Analysis of Vaccine Studies. Springer, New York, 387 pp. (2009).

  • Yang, Y., Sugimoto, JD, Halloran, ME, Basta, NE, Chao, DL, Matrajt, L, Potter, G, Kenah, E, Longini, IM: The transmissibility and control of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus. Science 326, 729-33 (2009)

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Grants

  • Methods for Evaluating Vaccine Efficacy
  • Development and Testing of Dengue Vaccines
  • Containing Bioterrorist and Emerging Infectious Diseases: Models of Infectious Disease Agent Studies (MIDAS)
  • Epidemiology and Ecology of Vibrio Cholerae in Bangladesh
  • Pandemic Influenza Micro-simulation Model for Pandemic Preparedness Planning for Los Angeles County, CA
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