Andrew Noymer

Andrew Noymer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health & Disease Prevention at the Program in Public Health, University of California, Irvine. As an epidemiologist and population health scientist, he specializes in infectious disease mortality with a focus on demographic, epidemiological, and social analyses of modern influenza pandemics (1918, 1957, 1968, 2009) and the coronavirus pandemic, and has served as a key media resource during public health crises.

His educational background includes:

• PhD in Demography from University of California, Berkeley (with NIA and NICHD traineeship)
• MSc from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
• AB from Harvard University

Dr. Noymer's research examines pandemic mortality patterns through interdisciplinary lenses, emphasizing how societal behaviors (social distancing, masking, vaccination) interact with viral dynamics. His work bridges historical pandemic analysis with real-time communication during the coronavirus crisis, highlighting health disparities and the critical role of public understanding in disease control.

His scientific honors comprise:

• NIA and NICHD Trainee Fellowship during doctoral studies
• Academic Senate Mid-Career Faculty Award for Service (2021-2022) for pandemic communication and community health advocacy

Though no advisees are listed in the source material, Dr. Noymer actively contributed to UCI's actOC population-based COVID-19 surveillance study in Fall 2020, which identified significant case underestimation and racial-ethnic/socioeconomic disparities. No specific grant funding details are mentioned beyond his traineeship.

He collaborates with the United Nations/World Health Organization Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 mortality estimation and was integral to UCI's public health response through the actOC study team, which conducted large-scale community transmission analysis in Orange County during the pandemic's critical early phase.