Team
Pandefense experts work across a wide range of domains that contribute to an effective response to the Covid-19 pandemic. We draw from our network to form the right interdisciplinary team to address each unique problem we are asked to help solve.
Larry Brilliant, MD, MPH
Founder and CEO of Pandefense Advisory, epidemiologist, philanthropist
Expertise: Epidemiology, public health, infectious diseases, public policy, philanthropy
Wändi Bruine de Bruin, PhD
Professor of public policy, psychology and behavioral science, University of Southern California
Expertise: Behavioral and decision science, public health, public policy, communications
Kirstin Chickering, MPH
Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Expertise: Global health, health education, public health program planning, implementation and evaluation
Lisa E. Danzig, MD
Infectious disease specialist in San Francisco, California developing vaccines, diagnostics, and drugs.
Expertise: Infectious disease specialist dealing with a broad array of emerging infectious diseases, including respiratory and blood-borne pathogens.
Baruch Fischhoff, PhD
Professor of engineering and public policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Expertise: Public health, data science, behavioral and decision science, public policy, communications, risk analysis
Veronica Garcia
Executive Assistant to Dr. Larry Brilliant, Pandefense Advisory
Expertise: Administration, philanthropy
Laurie Garrett
Columnist and author of award-winning books on public health, including The Coming Plague
Expertise: Epidemiology, public health, infectious diseases, public policy, communications
Lee Gunn
Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy (Retired)
Expertise: National security, public policy, military and defense
Scott P. Layne, MD, FACP, FIDSA
Physician and professor emeritus of public health, UCLA
Expertise: Epidemiology, public health, infectious diseases, virology, diagnostics, national security
W. Ian Lipkin, MD
Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University
Expertise: Epidemiology, public health, infectious diseases, virology, diagnostics, national security
Amy Lockwood MS, MBA, PhD
Senior Advisor, HIV Cure Africa Acceleration Partnership (HCAAP)
Expertise: Global health, public policy, strategy, operations, communications, program evaluation
Agastya Mondal
Ph.D. Student, University of California, Berkeley
Expertise: Epidemiology, software engineering, data science
Karen Pak Oppenheimer, MS, MPH
Principal, Pandefense Advisory
Expertise: Global health, strategy and operations, social ventures, philanthropy
Arthur Reingold, MD
Professor of Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley
Expertise: Epidemiology, public health, infectious diseases, diagnostics, public policy
Anne W. Rimoin, PhD
Professor of epidemiology, UCLA schools of public health and medicine
Expertise: Epidemiology, public health, infectious diseases, virology
Samuel V. Scarpino, PhD
Managing Director for Pathogen Surveillance, Rockefeller Foundation
Expertise: Epidemiology, public health, data science, behavioral and decision science
Jeffrey Shaman, PhD
Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences and Director of the Climate and Health Program at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Expertise: Climate, environmental health, public health