Research in Progress with Joshua Salomon: After Omicron? Evaluating COVID-19 Outbreak Vulnerability and Early Surge Signals

Joshua Salomon, PhD, is a Professor of Health Policy and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. His research focuses on public health policy and priority-setting, including modeling patterns and trends in major causes of global mortality and disease burden; evaluation of health interventions and policies; and measurement and valuation of health outcomes. He is director of the Prevention Policy Modeling Lab, a multi-institution research consortium that conducts health and economic modeling relating to infectious disease. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Salomon has worked extensively with policymakers on data synthesis, modeling and decision analysis to inform the public health response.