Marc Lipsitch is a professor of Epidemiology at Harvard University with primary appointment in the Department of Epidemiology and a joint appointment in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, where my wet lab is located. He directs the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, a center of excellence funded by the MIDAS program of NIH/NIGMS. He is also the Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Concentration in Infectious Disease Epidemiology. (From Harvard University).