Adam Kucharski

Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Adam Kucharski is professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he focuses on making better use of data to tackle health threats. He is the author of The Rules of Contagion (2020) and Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty (2025).

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Written by Adam Kucharski

Green rubber gloves drying on a clothesline, each held by colourful pegs in a sheltered wooden structure.

essayIllness and disease

The calculus of contagion

In the battle against disease, the difference between a raging epidemic and a passing fever comes down to a single number

Adam Kucharski