Lone Simonsen, Ph.D.
President

Dr. Lone Simonsen, founder and President of SAGE Analytica, is an expert in infectious disease epidemiology, mathematical modeling, methodology, surveillance systems, seasonality of viral diseases, molecular epidemiology and influenza. Her research is conducted with collaborators around the world and focuses on science-to-policy issues, pandemic influenza, drug resistance, burden of disease, outcome-based studies, and vaccine safety.

During her 17-year career as an epidemiologist at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the NIH, Dr. Simonsen developed novel tools and analysis methodology in a wide range of research projects. She has received multiple awards for her work from the Department of Health and Human Services, NIAID and CDC. Dr. Simonsen has also advised the Gates and Google Foundations and served as an expert advisor to CDC and WHO Advisory Committees on Immunization Practices and served as a technical advisor for several major pharmaceutical companies. She has published more than 80 peer reviewed papers, book chapters and commentaries, and presented at multiple international and national meetings.

Following the completion of her Ph.D. in population genetics at the University of Massachusetts in 1991, she embarked on a 17-year career as an epidemiologist, first in the influenza branch at CDC, then as a technical expert at WHO in Geneva working on TB drug resistance and HIV/AIDS global surveillance. Later, as a senior epidemiologist at NIAID she advised the institute leadership on influenza, SARS and vaccine issues, led a multi-agency effort to study Rotavirus vaccine adverse events, helped create the NIAID Influenza Genomics Sequencing Project and assisted the WHO with its global response to SARS and pandemic influenza. Dr. Simonsen recently left the government and currently holds a visiting professor appointment at George Washington University School of Public Health and serves as a vice president for Surveillance Data Inc, a medical data warehouse company in Pennsylvania.