Andrew Noymer, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Population Health & Disease Prevention at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) Wen School of Population and Public Health. He is a specialist in infectious disease mortality, he has closely studied prior modern pandemics of influenza (e.g., 2009, 1968, 1957, and the most severe, 1918) from a demographic, epidemiological, and social perspective.
Having foreshadowed that the coronavirus pandemic would have severe outcomes, Dr. Noymer has been a fixture in the media providing public health awareness on COVID-19 – one of the most significant global health events of the early 21st century. He has been quoted in New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and many other outlets.
Dr. Noymer holds a PhD degree from Berkeley, where he was also an NIA and NICHD trainee in demography, an MSc degree from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and an AB from Harvard University. He is a member of the United Nations/World Health Organization Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 mortality estimation.