Andrew Noymer is an epidemiologist and population health scientist at the University of California, Irvine, where he is associate professor in the Department of Population Health and Disease Prevention.  Prof. Noymer holds a PhD in sociology from Berkeley, where he was also an NIA and NICHD trainee in demography, an MSc in medical demography from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and an AB in biology from Harvard University.  A specialist in infectious disease mortality, Prof. Noymer has closely studied the prior modern pandemics of influenza (2009,1968,1957, and the most severe, 1918) from demographic, epidemiological, and social perspective.  The coronavirus pandemic is the signature global health event of the early 21st century, and understanding it requires multiple viewpoints.  Prof Noymer is active on Twitter (@AndrewNoymer) in doing public information on COVID-19, and he predicted in January that the coronavirus pandemic would have severe outcomes, as we now know it already has.  Prof Noymer’s scholarly work, on a number of aspects of population health, particularly mortality, is sampled on his webpage: https://webfiles.uci.edu/noymer/web/.