Ben Althouse, PhD, MS
Global Medical Affairs Lead for Pediatric PCV, Pfizer
Affiliate Professor, Department of Biology, New Mexico State University
Affiliate Associate Professor, iSchool, University of Washington
Dr. Ben Althouse is Global Medical Affairs Lead for Pediatric PCV at Pfizer. He has explored the transmission dynamics of arboviruses and respiratory pathogens, and the role of complex human contact structures on disease transmission. Dr. Althouse' work has included mathematical modeling of sylvatic dengue virus transmission in nonhuman primates in Senegal, examining the role of antimicrobial use on the evolution of drug resistance, using Twitter as a model system of co-infection dynamics, and using novel data sources (such as Google searches, Twitter, and Wikipedia article views) for population-level surveillance of infectious and chronic diseases.
Ben was an Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. He holds a PhD in Epidemiology and a Master of Science in Biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. He earned a Bachelor of Science in pure Mathematics and Biochemistry at the University of Washington.
Dr. Althouse is an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Biology at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, and an Affiliate Associate Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington.
Email: ben.althouse@gmail.com