25 Facts About Martin Kulldorff

Martin Kulldorff was born on 1962 and is a Swedish biostatistician.

Martin Kulldorff was a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School from 2003 until his dismissal in 2024.

Martin Kulldorff 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.

Martin Kulldorff was born in Lund, Sweden, in 1962, the son of Barbro and Gunnar Martin Kulldorff.

Martin Kulldorff grew up in Umea and received a BSc in mathematical statistics from Umea University in 1984.

Martin Kulldorff moved to the United States for his postgraduate studies as a Fulbright fellow, obtaining a doctorate in operations research from Cornell University in 1989.

Martin Kulldorff was an associate professor at the Department of Community Medicine at the University of Connecticut for five years and an associate professor at the Department of Statistics at Uppsala University for six years.

Martin Kulldorff has worked as a scientist at the National Institutes of Health in the US.

Martin Kulldorff developed SaTScan, a free software program used for geographical and hospital disease surveillance which is widely used, as well as a TreeScan software program for data mining.

Martin Kulldorff is the co-developer of the R-Sequential software program for exact sequential analysis.

Martin Kulldorff developed the statistical and epidemiological methods that are used in the software.

Martin Kulldorff helped develop and implement statistical methods used by the Vaccine Safety Datalink project that the CDC uses, among other tools, to discover and evaluate vaccine health and safety risks.

In 2021, Martin Kulldorff was named a senior scientific director at the Brownstone Institute, a right-wing think tank launched by Jeffrey Tucker that publishes articles challenging various measures against COVID-19, presenting research supporting authors' opinions, and discussing alternative measures.

In December 2021, Martin Kulldorff became one of the first three fellows, along with Bhattacharya and Scott Atlas, at the Academy for Science and Freedom, a program of the private, conservative Hillsdale College, a liberal arts school.

In March 2024, Martin Kulldorff announced that Harvard had dismissed him.

In 2020, Martin Kulldorff was invited to meet with leaders, lawyers and staff at the American Institute for Economic Research, an American libertarian think tank.

Martin Kulldorff's efforts resulted in the Great Barrington Declaration, an open letter co-authored with Oxford's Sunetra Gupta and Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya for the AIER.

Martin Kulldorff has spoken out against vaccine passports, stating they disproportionately harm the working class.

Martin Kulldorff and Bhattacharya opposed broad vaccine mandates, stating that the mortality risk is "a thousand fold higher" in older people than in younger people.

Martin Kulldorff has argued against COVID vaccinations for children, saying that the risks outweigh the benefits.

On 18 March 2021, Martin Kulldorff participated in an online roundtable with the governor of the state Florida, Ron DeSantis, to discuss COVID-19.

Martin Kulldorff was a member of the Vaccine Safety Technical subgroup of CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

In December 2021, Martin Kulldorff published an essay for the Brownstone Institute in which he argued against children receiving vaccination against COVID-19, falsely claiming that influenza was a greater risk to children than COVID-19.

On 13 February 2022, Martin Kulldorff tweeted in support of the Canada convoy protest, which was organized to protest against vaccine mandates and other government restrictions regarding COVID-19.