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Kulldorff is one of the three authors, along with [[Sunetra Gupta]] and [[Jay Bhattacharya]], of the 2020 [[Great Barrington Declaration]], which advocated letting [[COVID-19]] spread in lower-risk groups to promote [[herd immunity]] while advocating "focused protection" of older, high-risk groups.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Burki|first=Talha Khan|date=2021-02-01|title=Herd immunity for COVID-19|url=https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30555-5/abstract|journal=The Lancet Respiratory Medicine|language=English|volume=9|issue=2|pages=135–136|doi=10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30555-5|issn=2213-2600|pmid=33245861|pmc=7832483}}</ref><ref name="Why">{{cite web |url=https://gbdeclaration.org/why-was-the-declaration-written/ |title=Why Was The Declaration Written? |work=Great Barrington Declaration |access-date=2021-03-22 }}</ref> The [[World Health Organization]] (WHO) and many other academic and public-health bodies said the declaration's strategy lacked a sound scientific basis,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Swanson|first=Ian|date=2020-10-05|title=Trump health official meets with doctors pushing herd immunity|url=https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/519727-trump-health-official-meets-with-doctors-pushing-herd-immunity|access-date=2021-08-27|website=TheHill|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Public health experts warn against herd immunity strategy to manage COVID-19|url=https://www.pri.org/stories/2020-10-20/public-health-experts-warn-against-herd-immunity-strategy-manage-covid-19|access-date=2021-08-27|website=The World from PRX|language=en}}</ref> and warned that it could cause many unnecessary deaths and could result in recurrent epidemics.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hernandez|first=Sarah Toy and Daniela|date=2020-10-18|title=Scientists Push Back on Herd-Immunity Approach to Covid-19|language=en-US|work=Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-touts-document-calling-for-herd-immunity-approach-to-covid-19-crisis-11603051550|access-date=2021-08-27|issn=0099-9660}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-11-19|title=Meet the anti-lockdown doctor that conservative pundits are flocking to|url=https://www.salon.com/2020/11/19/this-doctor-is-popular-among-conservatives--but-his-views-on-lockdowns-are-very-controversial/|access-date=2021-08-27|website=Salon|language=en}}</ref>
Kulldorff is one of the three authors, along with [[Sunetra Gupta]] and [[Jay Bhattacharya]], of the 2020 [[Great Barrington Declaration]], which advocated letting [[COVID-19]] spread in lower-risk groups to promote [[herd immunity]] while advocating "focused protection" of older, high-risk groups.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Burki|first=Talha Khan|date=2021-02-01|title=Herd immunity for COVID-19|url=https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30555-5/abstract|journal=The Lancet Respiratory Medicine|language=English|volume=9|issue=2|pages=135–136|doi=10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30555-5|issn=2213-2600|pmid=33245861|pmc=7832483}}</ref><ref name="Why">{{cite web |url=https://gbdeclaration.org/why-was-the-declaration-written/ |title=Why Was The Declaration Written? |work=Great Barrington Declaration |access-date=2021-03-22 }}</ref> The [[World Health Organization]] (WHO) and many other academic and public-health bodies said the declaration's strategy lacked a sound scientific basis,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Swanson|first=Ian|date=2020-10-05|title=Trump health official meets with doctors pushing herd immunity|url=https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/519727-trump-health-official-meets-with-doctors-pushing-herd-immunity|access-date=2021-08-27|website=TheHill|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Public health experts warn against herd immunity strategy to manage COVID-19|url=https://www.pri.org/stories/2020-10-20/public-health-experts-warn-against-herd-immunity-strategy-manage-covid-19|access-date=2021-08-27|website=The World from PRX|language=en}}</ref> and warned that it could cause many unnecessary deaths and could result in recurrent epidemics.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hernandez|first=Sarah Toy and Daniela|date=2020-10-18|title=Scientists Push Back on Herd-Immunity Approach to Covid-19|language=en-US|work=Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-touts-document-calling-for-herd-immunity-approach-to-covid-19-crisis-11603051550|access-date=2021-08-27|issn=0099-9660}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-11-19|title=Meet the anti-lockdown doctor that conservative pundits are flocking to|url=https://www.salon.com/2020/11/19/this-doctor-is-popular-among-conservatives--but-his-views-on-lockdowns-are-very-controversial/|access-date=2021-08-27|website=Salon|language=en}}</ref>


Kulldorff has opposed [[COVID-19 lockdowns|lockdowns]], [[contact tracing]] and [[Face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic|mask mandates]] during the COVID-19 pandemic, and has appeared at media events to support the Great Barrington Declaration.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Varadarajan|first=Tunku|date=2020-10-23|title=Opinion {{!}} Epidemiologists Stray From the Covid Herd|language=en-US|work=Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/epidemiologists-stray-from-the-covid-herd-11603477330|access-date=2021-01-22|issn=0099-9660}}</ref><ref name="MedPage">{{Cite web|date=2020-10-19|title=Who Are the Scientists Behind the Great Barrington Declaration?|url=https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/89204|access-date=2021-01-22|website=www.medpagetoday.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Lenzer|first=Jeanne|date=2020-10-07|title=Covid-19: Group of UK and US experts argues for "focused protection" instead of lockdowns|url=https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m3908|journal=BMJ|language=en|volume=371|pages=m3908|doi=10.1136/bmj.m3908|issn=1756-1833|pmid=33028622|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-10-19|title=Anti-lockdown advocate appears on radio show that has featured Holocaust deniers|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/19/co-author-anti-lockdowns-letter-appeared-far-right-radio-show-martin-kulldorff-great-barrington-declaration-richie-allen-show|access-date=2021-03-11|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Musgrave|first=Jane|title=Coronavirus: DeSantis lays groundwork to overturn local mask mandates, chides 'lockdown' states|url=https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/coronavirus/2021/03/18/coronavirus-desantis-lays-groundwork-overturn-local-mask-mandates/4748407001/|access-date=2021-08-27|website=The Palm Beach Post|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-06-16|title=Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Pushes Through Pardons For Mask Mandate And COVID-19 Violators|url=https://miami.cbslocal.com/2021/06/16/florida-gov-ron-desantis-pardons-mask-mandate-covid-19-violators/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-27|website=CBS Miami|language=en-US}}</ref> He has spoken out against COVID-19 [[Immunity passport|vaccine passports]],<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-03-18|title=Gov. DeSantis: Vaccine passports are 'totally unacceptable'|url=https://nbc-2.com/news/health/2021/03/18/gov-desantis-round-table-vaccine-passports-could-be-detrimental-to-working-class/|access-date=2021-08-27|website=NBC2 News|language=en-US}}</ref> but supports COVID-19 vaccinations.<ref name=hill1>{{cite news | newspaper=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] | first1=Martin | last1=Kulldorff | first2=Jay | last2=Bhattacharya | title=The ill-advised push to vaccinate the young | date=17 June 2021 | accessdate=2 September 2021 | url=https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/558757-the-ill-advised-push-to-vaccinate-the-young}}</ref> In 2021, Kulldorff questioned the strategy of vaccinating younger people, citing scarcity of vaccines to more vunerable older people in developing countries.<ref name=hill1/>{{Non-primary source needed|date=September 2021}}
Kulldorff has opposed [[COVID-19 lockdowns|lockdowns]], [[contact tracing]] and [[Face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic|mask mandates]] during the COVID-19 pandemic, and has appeared at media events to support the Great Barrington Declaration.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Varadarajan|first=Tunku|date=2020-10-23|title=Opinion {{!}} Epidemiologists Stray From the Covid Herd|language=en-US|work=Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/epidemiologists-stray-from-the-covid-herd-11603477330|access-date=2021-01-22|issn=0099-9660}}</ref><ref name="MedPage">{{Cite web|date=2020-10-19|title=Who Are the Scientists Behind the Great Barrington Declaration?|url=https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/89204|access-date=2021-01-22|website=www.medpagetoday.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Lenzer|first=Jeanne|date=2020-10-07|title=Covid-19: Group of UK and US experts argues for "focused protection" instead of lockdowns|url=https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m3908|journal=BMJ|language=en|volume=371|pages=m3908|doi=10.1136/bmj.m3908|issn=1756-1833|pmid=33028622|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-10-19|title=Anti-lockdown advocate appears on radio show that has featured Holocaust deniers|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/19/co-author-anti-lockdowns-letter-appeared-far-right-radio-show-martin-kulldorff-great-barrington-declaration-richie-allen-show|access-date=2021-03-11|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Musgrave|first=Jane|title=Coronavirus: DeSantis lays groundwork to overturn local mask mandates, chides 'lockdown' states|url=https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/coronavirus/2021/03/18/coronavirus-desantis-lays-groundwork-overturn-local-mask-mandates/4748407001/|access-date=2021-08-27|website=The Palm Beach Post|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-06-16|title=Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Pushes Through Pardons For Mask Mandate And COVID-19 Violators|url=https://miami.cbslocal.com/2021/06/16/florida-gov-ron-desantis-pardons-mask-mandate-covid-19-violators/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-27|website=CBS Miami|language=en-US}}</ref> He has spoken out against COVID-19 [[Immunity passport|vaccine passports]],<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-03-18|title=Gov. DeSantis: Vaccine passports are 'totally unacceptable'|url=https://nbc-2.com/news/health/2021/03/18/gov-desantis-round-table-vaccine-passports-could-be-detrimental-to-working-class/|access-date=2021-08-27|website=NBC2 News|language=en-US}}</ref> but supports COVID-19 vaccinations calling them "one of the few bright spots during this pandemic".<ref name=hill1>{{cite news | newspaper=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] | first1=Martin | last1=Kulldorff | first2=Jay | last2=Bhattacharya | title=The ill-advised push to vaccinate the young | date=17 June 2021 | accessdate=2 September 2021 | url=https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/558757-the-ill-advised-push-to-vaccinate-the-young}}</ref> In 2021, Kulldorff questioned the strategy of vaccinating younger people, citing scarcity of vaccines to more vunerable older people in developing countries.<ref name=hill1/>


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Martin Kulldorff
Born1962 (age 61–62)[1]
Lund, Sweden[1]
NationalitySwedish
Alma materUmeå University
Cornell University
Known forCo-author of Great Barrington Declaration
Scientific career
InstitutionsHarvard Medical School
Brigham and Women's Hospital
ThesisOptimal Control of Favorable Games with a Time Limit (1989)
Doctoral advisorDavid Clay Heath

Martin Kulldorff (born 1962, Lund in Sweden), is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a biostatistician and epidemiologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital.[2] He serves on scientific advisory committees to the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control.[1][3]

Early life and education

Kulldorff was born in Lund, Sweden, in 1962, the son of Barbro and Gunnar Kulldorff. He grew up in Umeå, and received a BSc in mathematical statistics from Umeå University in 1984.[1] He then moved to the United States for his postgraduate studies as a Fullbright fellow,[1] obtaining a PhD in operations research from Cornell University in 1989. His PhD thesis, titled Optimal Control of Favorable Games with a Time Limit, was written under the direction of David Clay Heath.[4]

Career

Biostatistics

Kulldorff developed a free SaTScan software program used for geographical and hospital disease surveillance as well as a TreeScan software program for data mining. He is the co-developer of the R-Sequential software program for exact sequential analysis.[5][non-primary source needed] However, his key scientific contribution is the development of the statistical and epidemiological methods that are used in the software. These methods include spatial and space-time scan statistics, the tree-based scan statistics and various sequential analysis methods.[6][non-primary source needed]

COVID-19 pandemic

Kulldorff is one of the three authors, along with Sunetra Gupta and Jay Bhattacharya, of the 2020 Great Barrington Declaration, which advocated letting COVID-19 spread in lower-risk groups to promote herd immunity while advocating "focused protection" of older, high-risk groups.[7][8] The World Health Organization (WHO) and many other academic and public-health bodies said the declaration's strategy lacked a sound scientific basis,[9][10] and warned that it could cause many unnecessary deaths and could result in recurrent epidemics.[11][12]

Kulldorff has opposed lockdowns, contact tracing and mask mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic, and has appeared at media events to support the Great Barrington Declaration.[13][14][15][16][17][18] He has spoken out against COVID-19 vaccine passports,[19] but supports COVID-19 vaccinations calling them "one of the few bright spots during this pandemic".[20] In 2021, Kulldorff questioned the strategy of vaccinating younger people, citing scarcity of vaccines to more vunerable older people in developing countries.[20]

Other

Kulldorff is a member of the scientific council for drug safety and risk management at the Food and Drug Administration,[1] and a member of the Centers for Disease Control's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Harvard statistician appointed honorary doctor at the Faculty of Science and Technology". www.umu.se. Umeå University. August 10, 2020. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
  2. ^ "Martin Kulldorff, PhD". Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
  3. ^ a b LaVito, Angelica (April 21, 2021). "J&J Shot's Future Depends on 15 Cautious Vaccine Experts". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2021-09-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ Martin Kulldorff at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ Silva, Ivair; Gagne, Joshua; Najafzadeh, Mehdi; Kulldorff, Martin (2019-11-25). "Exact sequential analysis for multiple weighted binomial end points". Statistics in Medicine. 39 (3): 340–351. doi:10.1002/sim.8405. PMC 6984739. PMID 31769079.
  6. ^ "Package 'Sequential'" (PDF). 2021-02-21. Retrieved 2021-03-22.
  7. ^ Burki, Talha Khan (2021-02-01). "Herd immunity for COVID-19". The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. 9 (2): 135–136. doi:10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30555-5. ISSN 2213-2600. PMC 7832483. PMID 33245861.
  8. ^ "Why Was The Declaration Written?". Great Barrington Declaration. Retrieved 2021-03-22.
  9. ^ Swanson, Ian (2020-10-05). "Trump health official meets with doctors pushing herd immunity". TheHill. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
  10. ^ "Public health experts warn against herd immunity strategy to manage COVID-19". The World from PRX. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
  11. ^ Hernandez, Sarah Toy and Daniela (2020-10-18). "Scientists Push Back on Herd-Immunity Approach to Covid-19". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
  12. ^ "Meet the anti-lockdown doctor that conservative pundits are flocking to". Salon. 2020-11-19. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
  13. ^ Varadarajan, Tunku (2020-10-23). "Opinion | Epidemiologists Stray From the Covid Herd". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
  14. ^ "Who Are the Scientists Behind the Great Barrington Declaration?". www.medpagetoday.com. 2020-10-19. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
  15. ^ Lenzer, Jeanne (2020-10-07). "Covid-19: Group of UK and US experts argues for "focused protection" instead of lockdowns". BMJ. 371: m3908. doi:10.1136/bmj.m3908. ISSN 1756-1833. PMID 33028622.
  16. ^ "Anti-lockdown advocate appears on radio show that has featured Holocaust deniers". the Guardian. 2020-10-19. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
  17. ^ Musgrave, Jane. "Coronavirus: DeSantis lays groundwork to overturn local mask mandates, chides 'lockdown' states". The Palm Beach Post. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
  18. ^ "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Pushes Through Pardons For Mask Mandate And COVID-19 Violators". CBS Miami. 2021-06-16. Retrieved 2021-08-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  19. ^ "Gov. DeSantis: Vaccine passports are 'totally unacceptable'". NBC2 News. 2021-03-18. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
  20. ^ a b Kulldorff, Martin; Bhattacharya, Jay (17 June 2021). "The ill-advised push to vaccinate the young". The Hill. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
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