Mark Jit

Mark Jit is Professor and Chair of Global and Environmental Health at NYU's School of Global Public Health. His research develops epidemiological and economic models to inform vaccine policy, with focus areas spanning COVID-19, HPV, and respiratory pathogens.

Current priorities include:

• Quantifying socioeconomic disparities in vaccine access
• Optimizing immunization strategies in low-resource settings
• Modeling respiratory disease transmission dynamics

Recent work analyzes social contact patterns in China (2025) and global vaccine inequities (2025).