Martin Kulldorff
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Martin Kulldorff (born 1962) is a Swedish biostatistician. He was a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School from 2003 until his dismissal in 2024.[2][3][4] He is a member of the US Food and Drug Administration's Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee and a former member of the Vaccine Safety Subgroup of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.[1][5]
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Born | 1962 (age 61–62)[1] |
Alma mater | Umeå University (BSc) Cornell University (PhD) |
Known for | Creator of software SaTScan, Co-author of Great Barrington Declaration |
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Institutions | National Cancer Institute University of Connecticut Uppsala University Harvard Medical School Brigham and Women's Hospital |
Thesis | Optimal Control of Favorable Games with a Time Limit (1989) |
Doctoral advisor | David Clay Heath |
In 2020, Kulldorff was a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, which advocated lifting COVID-19 restrictions on lower-risk groups to develop herd immunity through infection before vaccines became available, while promoting the fringe notion that vulnerable people could be simultaneously protected from the virus.[6][7][8][9] The declaration was widely rejected, and was criticized as being unethical and infeasible by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization.[10]
During the pandemic, Kulldorff opposed disease control measures such as vaccination of children, lockdowns, contact tracing, and mask mandates.[7][11][12][13]