Martin Kulldorff
Martin Kulldorff | |
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| Born | 1962 (age 62–63) Lund, Sweden |
| Alma mater | Umeå University (BSc) Cornell University (PhD) |
| Known for | Creator of software SaTScan, Co-author of Great Barrington Declaration |
| Father | Gunnar Kulldorff |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | |
| 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 |
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. 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.
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. 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.
During the pandemic, Kulldorff opposed disease control measures such as vaccination of children, lockdowns, contact tracing, and mask mandates.