Epidemiology Expert Witnesses
The SEAK Expert Witness Directory contains a comprehensive list of epidemiology expert witnesses who testify, consult and provide litigation support on epidemiology and related issues. Epidemiology expert witnesses and consultants on this page may form expert opinions, draft expert witness reports, and provide expert witness testimony at deposition and trial. The issues and subjects these epidemiology expert witnesses testify regarding may include: Epidemiology, Covid 19, Public Health, Artificial Intelligence, Covid, Data Science, Cancer Causation, Data Analysis, Environmental Health, Indoor Air Quality, Mold, Pandemic, Pharmacoepidemiology, Statistics, and Adolescence.
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Aleksandr Aravkin, PhD
UW Professor & Statistics Expert Witness
Perceptron Consulting, LLC (Seattle, WA)
Alaska
Statistics
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Epidemiology, Election analysis, Damages estimation, Infectious disease (COVID-19), Business interruption, Medical malpractice, Disparate impact, Statistical analysis and modeling, Analysis of complex data, Data science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning, Visualizations
Dr. Aleksandr Aravkin is a statistical expert witness and tenured faculty member at the University of Washington, where he serves as Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics and Director of Mathematical Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). He brings more than 15 years of hands-on experience building, validating, and explaining complex statistical models—expertise he applies to high-stakes litigation across civil and criminal matters.
Dr. Aravkin has worked with state Attorneys General of Washington, Colorado, Oregon, and Kansas and with top law firms including Perkins Coie, Pillsbury, and Ballard Spahr. He has been deposed seven times and is known for delivering clear, defensible, and practical testimony. His litigation work spans election analysis, COVID-19 business-interruption claims, medical malpractice, damages estimation, general statistical analysis, and custom data analyses tailored to case-specific questions, including translating physical ...
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Charlotte A Hobbs, MD, PhD
Pediatric Hospital Medicine - Epidemiology
Coronado, California
Pediatric Hospitalist, Epidemiology
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Birth Defects, Teratogens, Pharmacovigilance, Genetics, Autism, Rare Disease, Prematurity, Birth trauma, Asthma, Neonatology, Adolescence, Ingestions, Respiratory failure, Vaccines, Artificial Intelligence, Misdiagnoses, Sudden Infant Death, Electronic Medical Records, Congenital heart defects, Infectious diseases
Physician Scientist with more than 30 years of experience. Expertise in clinical medicine, and clinical and translational research, including pediatrics, neonatal medicine epidemiology, precision health, rapid whole genome sequencing, and clinical informatics. Pediatric Hospitalist for 29 years during which served as expert witness for individual cases, class action suits, and pharmacovigilance duties. Inaugural Director of multiple NIH and CDC-funded Centers of Excellence. Experienced national and international public speaker, lecturer, and moderator. Demonstrated success obtaining, sustaining and growing state and federal funding for research and public health programs. Executive level leadership of research programs, including regulatory infrastructure, in large university setting resulting in implementation of innovative clinical research programs among large multi-disciplinary faculty. Additional collaborative projects with Pharma on clinical trials, natural history studies fo...
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Lawrence S Mayer, MD, MS, PhD
Epidemiology & Public Health - Emeritus Professor
Lawrence Mayer, MD, MS, PhD
Laguna Beach, California
Epidemiology, Public Health
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Biostatistics, Statistics, Causality, Study Design, Model Evaluation, Malpractice, Toxic Torts, Patent Disputes, Covid-19, Statistical Models, Data Analysis, Covid-19
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Michael L Fischman, MD, MPH
Occupational & Environmental Toxicology--UCSF Prof
Michael L. Fischman M.D. APC
Lafayette, California
Toxicology, Occupational Medicine
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Mold, Carbon monoxide toxicity, benzene toxicity, cancer causation, occupational/environmental lung diseases, metals toxicity, indoor air quality/building associated illness, epidemiology, epidemiology (cancer), inhalation toxicity
Clinical Professor, Division of Occupational, Environmental, and Climate Medicine, University of California San Francisco
Consultant, Fischman Occupational & Environmental Medical Group
Diplomate, American Board of Preventive Medicine in Occupational Medicine
Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine
Medical-legal consultant and expert witness in Occupational & Environmental Medicine and Toxicology
Fellow, American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM)
Member, Board of Directors, American College of Occupational & Environmental
Medicine (ACOEM), 2009 - 2015
Chair, ACOEM Council of Scientific Advisors, 2010-2022.
Co-author, "Chemical Hazards of the Workplace", Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991, among others.
Co-author “Occupational Cancer ”, Current Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Ed.:
J La Dou and R Harrison. Fifth Edition, New York: McGraw- Hill Companies, Inc., 2014
Author, "Building Associated Illness, Current Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Ed....
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Daniel T. Halperin, PhD
Covid-19/Public Health experienced expert witness
Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Albany, California
Infectious Diseases, Public Health
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Covid-19, Covid vaccines, Epidemiology, HIV, AIDS, Masks, Prevention, Pandemics, Covid, Covid vaccine, COVID, Pandemic, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, COVID-19 vaccines
Daniel Halperin is an internationally recognized expert in public health and infectious diseases, specializing in HIV-AIDS and Covid-19. Dr. Halperin has served as an expert witness in a wide variety of litigation, involving masking and other restrictions as well as COVID-19 vaccines, including for example vaccine-related injuries and regarding the lack of scientific evidence to justify mandating that children be vaccinated against Covid-19. He has taught and conducted research on the faculties of Harvard University and the University of California, San Francisco. He has published over 15 articles on Covid-19, including in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Cambridge University Press, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, and Time magazine, and is author of the highly regarded book, "Facing Covid Without Panic."
Reviews:
“Dr. Halperin supported our legal team by providing great testimony and giving invaluable help in preparing to question the opposing expert...
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Kristen Good, MEM, PhD, CIH
Environmental & Occupational Exposure Scientist
Fort Collins, Colorado
Epidemiology, Industrial Hygiene
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public health, environmental health, exposure science, exposure assessment, chemical hazard, indoor air quality, aerosols, wildfire, wildfire smoke, COVID-19, OSHA, exposure modeling, inhalation, pandemic, occupational health, occupational safety, toxicology, risk assessment, emergency management, heat
Dr. Kristen Good is an Epidemiologist, Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), and Exposure Scientist with over 15 years of experience in risk assessment, toxicology, exposure assessment, and environmental sciences. She has worked across academia, research, private industry, and government. She has a Ph.D. in Environmental Health (epidemiology concentration) from Colorado State University, a Master’s degree in Environmental Management, (toxicology focus) from Duke University, and a B.S. in Biology from Boston College. Her work has focused on human exposure, risk assessment, and health outcomes (respiratory pathogens, wildfires, biomass burning, mold, and chemical exposures).
Dr. Good has served as the leading technical authority in occupational health and indoor air quality at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) since 2020. She manages the state’s indoor air quality improvement programs (including work related to improving IAQ in schools, workplaces, and ...
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John H Murphy, BSc MHSc MBA PhD ROH CIH MACE
Leading International Occupational Hygienist
Dr JH Murphy Consulting Ltd / CrossSafety Group
Clearwater Beach, Florida
Industrial Hygiene, Indoor Air Quality
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Exposure, Legionnaires, Legionella, Occupational Disease, Environmental IPAC, COVID, Epidemiology, Mold, Asbestos, Carbon Monoxide, Chemical Product Liability, Respirators, Roundup, Pesticides, Construction Nosocomial, Hazard Assessment, Aerosol Transmission, Respiratory Infection, Retrospective Exposure / Dose Estimation
75+ Engagements since 2017 / Adjunct Professor Emeritus - Occupational & Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of Toronto / Member, American College of Epidemiology / Member, Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology / Member, TLV Chemical Substances Committee - American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists / Certified Industrial Hygienist (American Board of Industrial Hygiene) / Registered Occupational Hygienist (Canadian Registration Board of Occupational Hygienists) / Licensed Pesticide Applicator / Licensed Asbestos Project Supervisor / Managing Principal, Chief Executive and Majority Shareholder - Largest Canadian HSE Services Firm (>150 staff) www.crosssafety.ca / Offices: Canada - Ottawa, Toronto, Markham, Windsor. USA - Lexington, Clearwater / Canadian Citizen / E-2 USA Treaty Investor Visa (USA Work Authorization) / Secret Level II Security Clearance - Government of Canada / Engaged by US DoJ / Assignments throughou...
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Geoff Dougherty, PhD, MPH
Epidemiologist/Statistician - Skilled Communicator
Baltimore, Maryland
Epidemiology, Statistics
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Quality of Medical Care, Hospital Quality, Data Science, Surveys, Public Health
Dr. Dougherty holds a PhD in epidemiology and a masters of public health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the nation's preeminent public health institution. He has served in leadership capacities in government, commercial and academic settings, providing deep expertise in empirical study design and statistical methods. For several year years, Dr. Dougherty served as principal investigator for the U.S. News and World Report hospital rankings program, and is a nationally recognized expert in measuring quality of medical care. Dr. Dougherty has expertise in statistical methods and study design for numerous health conditions, including cancer, diabetes, opioid use disorder and others.
Prior to his academic career, Dr. Dougherty served as a reporter, editor and data analyst for leading news publications, including the Miami Herald and law.com. He has years of experience covering legal affairs and observing courtroom proceedings, including civil and criminal trials....
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Christopher M Worsham
Physician-epidemiologist | Harvard Faculty
Boston, Massachusetts
Epidemiology, Internal Medicine
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public health, health policy, health economics, causal inference, econometrics, pulmonology, critical care, data analysis, insurance claims, health services, statistics, research, intensive care, hospital, causation, data science, outcomes, artificial intelligence
Dr. Christopher M. Worsham uses epidemiologic and econometric methods to perform large database research on causal associations, physician behavior, resource utilization, and health care policy as a faculty member of Harvard Medical School. He is also a practicing pulmonary and critical care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and applies evidence-based medicine in his provision of health services and evaluation of scientific questions in health care settings. Dr. Worsham has particular research interest in the intensive care unit, for which he has received a career development grant award from the Agency for Healthcare Research in Quality. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals including The New England Journal of Medicine, The BMJ, and JAMA Internal Medicine. An advocate of public education about medicine, health, statistics, epidemiology, and biomedical sciences, Dr. Worsham coauthored the book "Random Acts of Medicine" and has written for popular publi...
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Remington Nevin, MD, MPH, DrPH
Physician Epidemiologist - Former Military
Remington Nevin Medicolegal, PLLC
Port Huron, Michigan
Preventive Medicine, Occupational Medicine
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public health, travel medicine, epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, drug safety, preventive medicine, occupational medicine, malaria, antimalarials, mefloquine, chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, primaquine, tafenoquine, quinoline, adverse events, vaccine safety, medical director
Remington Nevin, MD, MPH, DrPH, a former U.S. Army medical officer and current county health department medical director, is a physician epidemiologist and experienced expert witness in the fields of occupational medicine, preventive medicine, epidemiology, and public health. Trained in epidemiology at Johns Hopkins, board certified in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine and in Occupational Medicine by the American Board of Preventive Medicine, and licensed to practice medicine in five states (IL, MD, MI, NY, VT), Dr. Nevin is an active researcher, primarily in the field of drug safety. Dr. Nevin taught for 10 years at Johns Hopkins and has over 80 scientific publications with over 1,600 citations, primarily on topics related to antimalarial adverse effects, malaria, military mental health, and military-civilian health policy.
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David A. Savitz, PhD
Causal Inference Based on Epidemiologic Evidence
Center Sandwich, New Hampshire
Epidemiology
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Environmental health, Reproduction, Pregnancy
I have extensive experience in conducting, publishing, and evaluating epidemiologic research on a wide range of topics. I have been particularly involved with studies of environmental toxicants and in study of reproductive health outcomes. I have developed and applied methods for assessing causal effects based on epidemiologic data and have applied those skills in a number of legal cases. I am able to address a range of exposures, including medications, nutrients, and health services in relation to a wide variety of health outcomes, including cancer, reproductive health, and chronic diseases.
My expert witness experience has included a balance of work for plaintiffs and defendants, and has included written reports, depositions, and court testimony. As an epidemiologist, I address general causation using appropriate scientific methods which I am able to explain and defend.
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Eileen E. Ming, MPH, ScD, FISPE
Epidemiologist
Epi Excellence LLC
Garnet Valley, Pennsylvania
Public Health, Pharmaceutical Research
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epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, outcomes research, observational research, real world evidence
Eileen E. Ming, MPH, ScD, FISPE, is an epidemiologist, pharmacoepidemiologist, outcomes researcher, and leader in the pharmaceutical industry. She served as an outcomes researcher at Merck, an epidemiologist at AstraZeneca, and the head of global epidemiology and pharmacoepidemiology at Shire Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Ming founded Epi Excellence, an epidemiology consulting practice, in 2014. She has worked across a variety of therapeutic areas, from pre-clinical through post-marketing phases, providing epidemiologic strategic and tactical expertise to commercial, clinical development, market access, medical affairs, regulatory, and pharmacovigilance activities.
Dr. Ming is an Adjunct Scholar of the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and an Adjunct Investigator of the Center for Real-World Effectiveness and Safety of Therapeutics, at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a Fellow of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology. D...
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Theron Blickenstaff, MD, FACOEM
Occupational and Environmental Medicine Physician
Occupational and Environmental Medicine Consulting
Kingsport, Tennessee
Occupational Medicine, Toxicology
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Epidemiology, Cancer causation, Indoor Air Quality, Inhalation exposure, Chemical exposure, Occupational Lung Disease, Material Safety Data Sheets, Medical Record Reviews, Disability Consultation
Review of records, written reports, affidavits, depositions, courtroom testimony. Workers Compensation, Social Security Disability. Occupational exposures, environmental exposures, consumer product exposures. Defense and plaintiff. Over 20 years experience in occupational and environmental medicine. Material Safety Data Sheets. Exposure assessment a particular strength.
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Aleksandr Aravkin, PhD
UW Professor & Statistics Expert Witness
Perceptron Consulting, LLC (Seattle, WA)
Shoreline, Washington
Statistics
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Epidemiology, Election analysis, Damages estimation, Infectious disease (COVID-19), Business interruption, Medical malpractice, Disparate impact, Statistical analysis and modeling, Analysis of complex data, Data science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning, Visualizations
Dr. Aleksandr Aravkin is a statistical expert witness and tenured faculty member at the University of Washington, where he serves as Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics and Director of Mathematical Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). He brings more than 15 years of hands-on experience building, validating, and explaining complex statistical models—expertise he applies to high-stakes litigation across civil and criminal matters.
Dr. Aravkin has worked with state Attorneys General of Washington, Colorado, Oregon, and Kansas and with top law firms including Perkins Coie, Pillsbury, and Ballard Spahr. He has been deposed seven times and is known for delivering clear, defensible, and practical testimony. His litigation work spans election analysis, COVID-19 business-interruption claims, medical malpractice, damages estimation, general statistical analysis, and custom data analyses tailored to case-specific questions, including translating physical ...
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