Samuel V. Scarpino, PhD
Managing Director for Pathogen Surveillance, Rockefeller Foundation
Dr. Samuel Scarpino joined Pandefense Advisory at its founding in March 2020 when he was Assistant Professor at the Network Science Institute of Northeastern University. He left in July 2021 to become Managing Director for Pathogen Surveillance at the Rockefeller Institute.
Dr. Samuel Scarpino is an expert in complex systems and network science, including forecasting and predictive modeling, complex network analysis, epidemiology, genomics and transcriptomics, social networks, and decision making under uncertainty. He is an assistant professor in the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University and has more than ten years of experience translating research into public health and clinical decision support tools. For his contributions to complex systems science, he was awarded the Junior Scientific Award by the Complex Systems Society. Outside academia, Dr. Scarpino is a member of multiple World Economic Forum working groups, is a strategic advisor to technology startups and biotechnology companies, and serves on the scientific advisory board for BioFire Diagnostics’s Trend surveillance system. He has given over 100 keynotes and professional presentations at international conferences, has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles, and is a deputy editor at PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Dr. Scarpino earned a PhD from The University of Texas at Austin and was a Santa Fe Institute Omidyar Fellow.
Expertise: Epidemiology, public health, data science, behavioral and decision science