Visualizing and modelling contagion: Dr.David Earn at TEDx McMaster U

David Earn was born and raised in Winnipeg, Canada, and was an undergraduate in Mathematics at the University of Toronto. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge, England, where his research involved the application of mathematical methods to problems in theoretical astrophysics. During his postdoctoral years he became interested in applying mathematics to biological problems and soon shifted focus entirely to biology, especially the epidemiology of infectious diseases. Dr. Earn is currently a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University, where he has been since January 2000. He has been a recipient of a New Investigator Award from the Canadian Institites of Health Research (CIHR), an Ontario Premier's Research Excellence Award, and a J. S. McDonnell Foundation Research Award. He is also the founder and curator of the International Infectious Disease Data Archive.

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