Events
Invited Talk series: Talk by Prof. Matthew Ferrari
August 05, 2025
How to count to 60 million: modeling the control and elimination of measles and rubellaDr. Matthew Ferrari is a Professor of Biology and the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Global Health at The Pennsylvania State University. His research combines his background in Fisheries and Wildlife Management, Statistics, and Ecology to develop quantitative models and methods to build computational models to understand the dynamics, persistence, and control of vaccine preventable diseases of humans and animals. His primary focus has been the control and elimination of measles and rubella. He has worked as an advisor to the World Health Organization; Gavi, the vaccine alliance; Medecins Sans Frontieres and national Ministries of Health to develop models and analysis to support routine and outbreak response vaccination for measles and other outbreak prone infections. In addition to his research activities, Dr. Ferrari is the Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics (CIDD) at Penn State. CIDD is an organization of over 70 academic laboratories across academic units at Penn State that study infectious disease biology at scales ranging from proteins to pandemics.