Martin Kulldorff
Martin Kulldorff (born 1962) is a Swedish biostatistician. He has been a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School since 2003, though on leave as of 2023. He 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 US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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| Born | 1962 (age 61–62) Lund, Sweden |
| Alma mater | Umeå University (BSc) Cornell University (PhD) |
| Known for | Creator of software SaTScan, Co-author of Great Barrington Declaration |
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| Institutions | National Cancer Institute University of Connecticut Uppsala University Harvard Medical School Brigham and Women's Hospital |
| Thesis | Optimal Control of Favorable Games with a Time Limit (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Clay Heath |
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 false promise that vulnerable people could be protected from the virus. The declaration was widely rejected, and was criticized as being unethical and infeasible by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization.
During the pandemic, Kulldorff opposed disease control measures such as vaccination of children, lockdowns, contact tracing, and mask mandates.