Mark Jit

Mark Jit is the chair and a professor in the Department of Global and Environmental Health at New York University. He holds honorary appointments at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the National University of Singapore (NUS). His research group focuses on epidemiological and economic modelling of vaccines to support evidence-based public health decision making. Their work has helped inform immunisation policy in high, middle and low-income countries, in close collaboration with partners based in those countries. More recently, they have focused on examining the potential health and economic impact of COVID-19 vaccination. 

Mark has published over 200 papers covering a range of vaccine-preventable or potentially vaccine-preventable diseases including measles, HPV, pneumococcus, rotavirus, influenza, group B Streptococcus, dengue, EV71, RSV and COVID-19 as well as methodological papers advancing the ways vaccines are evaluated. He also organises or contributes to academic and professional courses on vaccine modelling, economics and decision science around the world.