Associate Research Scientist
Marshfield Clinic Research Institute
Disclosure(s): GSK Inc.: Grant/Research Support; Pfizer Inc.: Grant/Research Support
Maria Sundaram, MSPH, PhD, is an Associate Research Scientist at Marshfield Clinic Research Institute in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Population Health. She is an infectious disease epidemiologist whose research focuses on respiratory viruses and the vaccines that prevent them. Her research has included estimating influenza vaccine effectiveness with the CDC-based US Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness Network, and describing the epidemiology of RSV in young children and older adults in rural areas. More recently, her research showed COVID-19 testing inequities had the potential to create bias in COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness estimates.