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Editorial Board

Editorial Board members are leading researchers who advise the PLOS Medicine editors on journal scope and policy, and serve as Academic Editors for manuscript submissions.

Editor-in-Chief

Till Winfried Bärnighausen

Alexander von Humboldt Professor and Director, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH)
Clinical Specialist in Family Medicine (FA Allgemeinmedizin)
Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, Heidelberg University
Heidelberg, Germany

 

Editorial Board Members

Jean Adams

University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Elizabeth Ashley

Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) 
Bangkok, Thailand

Ruanne Barnabas

Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA, USA

Sanjay Basu

Center for Primary Care, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

James Beeson

Burnet Institute
Melbourne, Australia

Zulfiqar A. Bhutta

Aga Khan University
Karachi, Pakistan

Carol Brayne

University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom

James Brenton

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Karim Brohi

Queen Mary University of London
London, United Kingdom

Suzanne C. Cannegieter

Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden, The Netherlands

Aadel Chaudhuri

Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN, USA

George Davey Smith

University of Bristol
Bristol, United Kingdom

Agnès Dechartres

Sorbonne Université
Paris, France

Louisa Degenhardt

National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia

Claudia Denkinger

University Hospital Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany

Matthias Egger

Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern
Bern, Switzerland

Seena Fazel

University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom

David Flood

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Raquel Gardner

Sheba Medical Center
Tel Aviv, Israel

Paul Garner

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Liverpool, United Kingdom

Elvin Geng

Washington University in St. Louis 
St. Louis, MO, USA

Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert

Stanford University School of Medicine 
Stanford, CA, USA

Rebecca Grais

Medicines Sans Frontieres
Paris, France

Yuming Guo

School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University
Melbourne, Australia

Charlotte Hanlon

Addis Ababa University
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Tom Huizinga

Leiden University Medical Centre
Leiden, Netherlands

Fumiaki Imamura

University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Weiping Jia

Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Shanghai, China

Ricky Johnstone

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Victoria, Australia

Gilaad Kaplan

University of Calgary
Alberta, Canada

Andre-Pascal Kengne

South African Medical Research Council and University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa

Aaron Kesselheim

Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

Mirjam Kretzschmar

University Medical Center
Utrecht, The Netherlands

Margaret Kruk

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Boston, MA, USA

Claudia Langenberg

University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Nicola Low

Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern
Bern, Switzerland

Ronald Ma

Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, China

Peter MacPherson

University of Glasgow and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
United Kingdom

Clara Menéndez

Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)
Barcelona, Spain

David Menon

University of Cambridge Department of Medicine
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Aaloke Mody

Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO, USA

Steven C. Moore

Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute
Rockville, MD, USA

Megan Murray

Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA, USA

Jenny Myers 

University of Manchester
Manchester, United Kingdom

Annettee Nakimuli

Makerere University
Kampala, Uganda

Marie-Louise Newell

University of Southampton
Southampton, United Kingdom

Christelle Nguyen

Université Paris Descartes
Paris, France

Mindie Nguyen

Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA

Madhukar Pai

McGill University
Montreal, Canada

David Peiris

University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia

Lars Åke Persson

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
London, United Kingdom

Barry Popkin

Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Don Redelmeier

Sunnybrook Research Institute
Toronto, Canada

Giuseppe Remuzzi

Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research
Bergamo, Italy

Sydney Rosen

Boston University
Boston, MA, USA

Perminder Sachdev

Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia

Martin Schreiber

Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, OR, USA

Akihiro Seita

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
World Health Organization Special Representative to UNRWA
Amman, Jordan

Akihiro Seita is serving in his personal capacity. The views expressed are his own and do not necessarily represent the views of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East or the World Health Organization.

Aziz Sheikh

University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Andrew Shennan

King's College London
London, United Kingdom

Amit Singal

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX, USA

Gordon Smith

University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Amitabh Suthar

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA, USA

Amitabh Bipin Suthar is serving in his personal capacity. The views expressed are his own and do not necessarily represent the views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the United States Government

Maarten Taal

Royal Derby Hospital
Derby, United Kingdom

Peter WG Tennant

University of Leeds
Leeds, United Kingdom

Mark Tomlinson

Stellenbosch University, Matieland
Matieland, South Africa

Alexander C. Tsai

Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

James Tumwine

Makerere University
Kampala, Uganda

Jean-Louis Vincent

Erasme University Hospital
Brussels, Belgium

Lorenz von Seidlein

Mahidol University
Bangkok, Thailand

Nicholas J White

Mahidol University
Bangkok, Thailand

Joshua Willey

Columbia University
New York, NY, USA

Wei Zheng

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, TN, USA

 

Statistical Advisors

PLOS Medicine Statistical Advisors are expert statisticians who provide methodological review of research manuscripts.

Laurent Billot

The George Institute for International Health
Sydney, Australia

Stephen Burgess

University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Xiaochen Dai

University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA

Nikos Demiris

Cambridge Clinical Trials Centre, University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Michael Dewey

King's College London
London, United Kingdom

Jessie Edwards

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
USA

Peter Flom

Freelance Statistician
New York, USA

Apostolos Gkatzionis

University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Andrew Grant

University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia

Roxanne Hastie

Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Newborn Health, University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia

Marc Henrion

Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Research Programme
Blantyre, Malawi

Frederick Ho

University of Glasgow
Glasgow, United Kingdom

Jessica Kasza

School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
Melbourne, Australia

Zoe Kelson

Freelance Statistician
United Kingdom

Ryan Kenny

National Institute for Health and Care Research Innovation Observatory, Newcastle University
Newcastle, United Kingdom

Karen Lamb

Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
Victoria, Australia

Qiang Li

The George Institute for International Health
Sydney, Australia

Gilbert Lim

EYE ACP, Duke-NUS Medical School
Singapore

Nan Liu

Duke-NUS Medical School, National University of Singapore
Singapore

Xiaoqiu (Julia) Liu

The George Institute for Global Health and University of New South Wales
New South Wales, Australia

Anthony Matthews

Unit of Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, Sweden

Alex McConnachie

University of Glasgow
Glasgow, United Kingdom

Zoe Moodie

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA, USA

Tomos Robinson

Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University
Newcastle, United Kingdom

Kris Rogers

Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney
NSW, Australia

Hosein Shabaninejad

Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University
Newcastle, United Kingdom

Ewout Steyerberg

Erasmus MC
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Daniel Temko

MRC Biostatistics Unit
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jingshu Wang

The University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA

Yanzhong Wang

King's College London
London, United Kingdom

James Wason

MRC Biostatistics Unit
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Hong Xiao

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA, USA

Robin Young

University of Glasgow
Glasgow, United Kingdom

Verena Zuber

Imperial College London
London, United Kingdom