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Martin Kulldorff
Born1962 (age 61–62)
Lund, Sweden
NationalitySwedish
Alma materUmeå University
Cornell University
Known forCo-author of Great Barrington Declaration
Scientific career
InstitutionsHarvard Medical School
Brigham and Women's Hospital
ThesisOptimal Control of Favorable Games with a Time Limit (1989)
Doctoral advisorDavid Clay Heath

Martin Kulldorff (born 1962) is a Swedish biostatistician. Kulldorff is a former professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and biostatistician at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is a member of the Food and Drug Administration's Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee and a former consultant for the Centers for Disease Control.

In 2020, Kulldorff was a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, which advocated a concept called Focused Protection, which means to "allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk." He opposed measures against the coronavirus such as lockdowns and mask mandates for children.

Early life and education

Kulldorff was born in Lund, Sweden, in 1962, the son of Barbro and Gunnar Kulldorff. He grew up in Umeå, and received a BSc in mathematical statistics from Umeå University in 1984. He then moved to the United States for his postgraduate studies as a Fulbright fellow, obtaining a PhD in operations research from Cornell University in 1989. His PhD thesis, titled Optimal Control of Favorable Games with a Time Limit, was written under the direction of David Clay Heath.

Career

Biostatistics

Kulldorff developed a free SaTScan software program used for geographical and hospital disease surveillance as well as a TreeScan software program for data mining. He is the co-developer of the R-Sequential software program for exact sequential analysis. However, his key scientific contribution is the development of the statistical and epidemiological methods that are used in the software. These methods include spatial and space-time scan statistics, the tree-based scan statistics and various sequential analysis methods.

COVID-19 pandemic

Kulldorff was one of the three authors, along with Sunetra Gupta and Jay Bhattacharya, of the Great Barrington Declaration in October 2020, which advocated letting COVID-19 spread in lower-risk groups to promote herd immunity and concentrating on "focused protection" of older, high-risk groups. The World Health Organization and many other academic and public-health bodies said such a policy lacked a sound scientific basis, and warned that it could cause many unnecessary deaths and could result in recurrent epidemics.

Kulldorff has opposed COVID-19 lockdowns, contact tracing and mask mandates during the pandemic, and has appeared at media events to support the Great Barrington Declaration. He has spoken out against vaccine passports, but supports COVID-19 vaccinations. In June 2021 Kulldorff questioned the strategy of vaccinating younger people, citing scarcity of vaccines to more vunerable older people in developing countries.

In 2021, Kulldorff was named a senior scientific director at the Brownstone Institute, a new think tank launched by Jeffrey Tucker that published articles opposing various measures against COVID-19. Bhattacharya and Gupta, his co-authors on the Great Barrington Declaration, also have had roles there.

In December 2021, Kulldorff helped found the Academy for Science and Freedom with Bhattacharya and Scott Atlas, a program of the private conservative liberal arts college Hillsdale College.

Other

Kulldorff is a member of the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee at the Food and Drug Administration, and a former consultant for the Centers for Disease Control's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

References

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