13 Facts About Natalie Dean

Natalie E Dean is an American biostatistician specializing in infectious disease epidemiology.

Natalie Dean's research involves epidemiological modeling of outbreaks, including Ebola, Zika and COVID-19.

Natalie Dean grew up in Reading, Massachusetts, and attended Phillips Academy.

Natalie Dean became interested in infectious diseases during high school.

In 2011, Natalie Dean earned an AM master's degree in biostatistics from Harvard University where she developed surveillance methods to better understand the incidence of HIV.

In May 2014, Natalie Dean moved to Florida, where she joined the World Health Organization as a statistical consultant.

Natalie Dean worked on the design of a vaccine trial for the Ebola virus epidemic in Guinea, which made use of a ring vaccination strategy.

Natalie Dean worked with Longini to better predict the spread of the infection through the Americas.

Natalie Dean has described how challenging it is to design and evaluate effective vaccinations during public health emergencies, and why researchers must be both flexible and responsive.

Natalie Dean has provided expert commentary to the media and public throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

Natalie Dean has continued to work with the World Health Organization on the evaluation of a coronavirus vaccine.

Natalie Dean believed that the United States official death figures underestimated the number of people who were being lost to coronavirus disease because people who die at home are less likely to be counted.

Natalie Dean argued that the reason the virus spread as fast as it did was because no one in the world was immune to it, and that to try and reach herd immunity without a vaccination would result in "a very large proportion of the [United States] population" becoming infected.