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W. Ian Lipkin

W. Ian Lipkin, MD, is the John Snow Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Center for Infection and Immunity at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, and Director of the Global Alliance for Preventing Pandemics.