Profile
Dr. Caroline Buckee joined Harvard School of Public Health in the summer of 2010 as an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2017. Dr. Buckee was promoted to Professor in 2021. In 2013, Dr. Buckee was named the Associate Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics. Dr. Buckee is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of Crisis Ready (crisisready.io), an interdisciplinary platform developed in collaboration with Direct Relief that provides real-time technical support to humanitarian agencies, researchers, and governments during public health emergencies.
The Buckee lab uses mathematical models and data science to understand the mechanisms driving the spread of infectious diseases, with a focus on pathogens like malaria that effect vulnerable populations in low income countries. After receiving a D.Phil from the University of Oxford, Caroline worked at the Kenya Medical Research Institute to analyze clinical and epidemiological aspects of malaria as a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow. Her work led to an Omidyar Fellowship at the Santa Fe Institute, where she developed theoretical approaches to understanding malaria parasite evolution and ecology. In 2013 Dr. Buckee was named one of MIT Tech Review's 35 Innovators Under 35, a CNN Top 10: Thinker, and Foreign Policy Magazine's Global Thinkers. Her work has appeared in high profile scientific journals such as Science and PNAS, as well as being featured in the popular press, including CNN, The New Scientist, Voice of America, NPR, and ABC.
Expertise
Infectious Diseases & Climate Change
Salata Institute Sponsored Projects
The Salata Institute is committed to supporting research that promises to make a real-world impact on the climate crisis. The Climate Research Clusters Program and Seed Grant Program deliver on this commitment by funding new and interdisciplinary climate research that address the many dimensions of the climate challenge.
Climate Research Cluster: Climate adaptation in South Asia
Outside professional activities
Outside Professional Activities
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Crisis Ready
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MalariaGEN
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UVM Center of Biomedical Research
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Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
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