Robert C. Reiner

Robert C. Reiner Jr. is a disease ecologist and an associate professor, department of Health Metrics Sciences, University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). Dr. Reiner combines his extensive background in applied mathematics, statistics, and probability with over a decade of work in mathematical ecology, epidemiology and entomology to model infectious diseases. Dr. Reiner has a diverse array of interests, most concerning the role and drivers of spatio-temporal variation in infectious disease transmission dynamics. Currently, Dr. Reiner’s work focuses on the COVID pandemic, where he is a lead developer for the IHME COVID-19 model as well as the faculty lead for the IHME COVID-19 development team.

Participants wearing protective face masks amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, pray as they take an ice-cold bath during a ceremony to purify their souls and to wish for overcoming the pandemic at the Teppozu Inari shrine in Tokyo, Japan, January 9, 2022.
Governance

The Past, Present, and Future of the COVID-19 Pandemic

by Max Mehlman, Susan A. McLaughlin, James Collins, Robert C. Reiner

What COVID-19 will look like in the coming months

A man rides a motorcycle in front of a worker transporting sacks of spices loaded on a bullock cart at a wholesale market in the old quarters of Delhi, India.
Governance

Planning Amid Uncertainty

by Chris Odell, Robert C. Reiner

A tricky time in the COVID-19 pandemic

workers hold up signs
Governance

Reducing Inequity in the United States' Vaccine Rollout

by Katie Welgan, Robert C. Reiner

We need to rethink what vaccine access means