David Earn
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.1) 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.2)
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.3)
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.4)
He published research on game theory to decrease vaccine hesitancy.5)
1)
Welcome to David Earn’s website — David J.D. Earn. McMaster University. Retrieved May 3, 2022, from https://archive.ph/eHVVT
2)
About Us. Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. Retrieved April 28, 2022, from https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/about/
3)
Research Interests — David J.D. Earn. McMaster University. Retrieved May 3, 2022, from https://davidearn.mcmaster.ca/research
4)
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
5)
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