====== David Earn =======

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**David J. D. Earn**, CASM, MSc, PhD is a Canadian epidemiologist based in Hamilton, Ontario.

===== Education =====

Earn was an undergraduate in [[mathematics]] at the [[University of Toronto]], and received his PhD in theoretical [[astrophysics]] from the [[University of Cambridge]], where he was a [[Commonwealth Scholar]] and holder of an [[Isaac Newton Studentship]].  As a postdoctoral fellow in Cambridge and Princeton, he shifted focus to biological problems, especially the epidemiology of [[infectious diseases]].

===== Career and Affiliations =====

Earn is a recipient of a [[Canadian Institutes of Health Research]] (CIHR) New Investigator Award and an [[Ontario Premier’s Research Excellence Award]].

==== McMaster University ====

Earn is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at [[McMaster University]].((//Welcome to David Earn’s website — David J.D. Earn.// McMaster University. Retrieved May 3, 2022, from https://archive.ph/eHVVT)) He is also a member of the executive committee of the [[M. G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research]] at McMaster.
==== Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table ====

Earn is a member of the [[Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table]].((//About Us.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. Retrieved April 28, 2022, from https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/about/))

===== Research =====

His primary research interests are in infectious disease dynamics, from the time of the [[Black Death]] to the present.

==== Funding ====

Earn's research funding comes from the CIHR, the [[National Institutes of Health]] (NIH), [[Statistics Canada]], [[Ontario Innovation Trust]], [[Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada]] (NSERC), [[Canada Foundation for Innovation]], [[SHARCNET]], and the [[James S. McDonnell Foundation]].((//Research Interests — David J.D. Earn.// McMaster University. Retrieved May 3, 2022, from https://davidearn.mcmaster.ca/research))

He was paid by the [[Public Health Agency of Canada]] to conduct modelling analyses and forecasting associated with the pandemic in May-August 2020. He was also paid by [[Sun Life Financial]] to deliver predictions on [[COVID-19]] modelling.((Earn, D. (2021). //Declaration of Interest.// Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Declaration-of-Interest_Science-Table_David-Earn_20211014.pdf))

He published research on [[game theory]] to decrease [[vaccine hesitancy]].((Bauch, C. T., & Earn, D. J. D. (2004). //Vaccination and the theory of games.// Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 101(36), 13391–13394. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0403823101))