Shaun Truelove, PhD, MPH

Assistant Scientist

Shaun Truelove is an Assistant Scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in the Department of International Health. Dr. Truelove’s work mainly focuses on vaccination impact and understanding the potential for outbreaks in various settings. His research specifically focuses on measles, rubella, and diphtheria and involves infectious disease dynamics, modeling, and methods development. As a member of the Vaccine Impact Modeling Consortium, he conducts disease and vaccine modeling of rubella to understand future projected disease burden and vaccine impact. He also works on pandemic preparedness and outbreak response preparedness as part of the READY project.

He holds a BS and MPH from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prior to coming to Hopkins, he worked for the Wisconsin State Health Department and then for the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Cairo, Egypt.