Daniel J. Tisch, PhD, MPH

Dr. Daniel Tisch has over two decades’ experience as an epidemiologist, biostatistician, and data core director in field studies of infectious diseases in the USA, South Pacific, and Africa. He has been active in the development of education and training in epidemiology, biostatistics, and databases in low-resource settings in the USA and internationally. His primary research focus is the monitoring and elimination of neglected diseases including lymphatic filariasis, a debilitating disease transmitted to humans by mosquitoes. He is also actively involved in research on the diagnostics and epidemiology of COVID-19 malaria, schistosomiasis, and integrated parasite control programs. He specializes in the application of modern epidemiologic and statistical techniques to the design and analysis of cluster randomized field trials and observational studies.  Dr. Tisch is the Director of the Master of Public Health Program at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.