Disease

Nancy Leys Stepan is professor of history at Columbia University. Her previous books include “The Hour of Eugenics”: Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America.

Contributing writer @nytmag. Author of An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases

Jonathan Howard is a cell geneticist who has made important contributions through his studies in rats to our understanding of immunogenetics — the interplay between the immune system and genetics. He also identified the transporters required for major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I assembly, which opened up transport and assembly of membrane proteins as a new and exciting area of research.

Physician, epidemiologist, and director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Credited with devising the global strategy for eradicating smallpox.

Born in Lakewood, Ohio to Scots-Canadian immigrant parents. His father was an engineer and his mother was a nurse.

Recipient of a significant grant from the National Institutes of Health for leading a part of the Precision Medicine Initiative. Also serves as the principal investigator for the Scripps hub of the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program.

Thinking & writing about science. PhD'ing. Research @OurWorldInData. Founder & editor @WorksInProgMag @stripe. Editor @stripepress. Made in Hong Kong 🏳️‍🌈🇭🇰

Science journalist, author of Breath from Salt, former Pro-Am Ballroom competitor

Paul Farmer is Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard Medical School and Founding Director of Partners In Health. Among his books are Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues (1999), The Uses of Haiti (1994), and AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame (1992). Farmer is the winner of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award and the Margaret Mead Award for his contributions to public anthropology. He recently held the Blaise Pascal International Chair at the College de France.

PhD candidate in disease ecology at UIUC studying ticks and climate change. Co-host of This Podcast Will Kill You @tpwky. Passionate about #SciComm.

MD/PhD | Co-host of This Podcast Will Kill You @TPWKY | she/her

working to make the world healthier. 2x startup founder @commsor @launchhouse, investing @housecapvc