Alton and Sandra Cleveland Professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering 
Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering

Lauren Gardner is the Alton and Sandra Cleveland Professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering and holds a joint appointment In the Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is the creator of the interactive web-based COVID-19 dashboard being used by public health authorities, researchers, and the general public around the globe to track the outbreak of the novel coronavirus and has received over 200 billion usage requests. Due to her leadership in COVID-19 data sharing, she was named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020 for “democratizing data” and filling “a void of public health leadership” during the pandemic. Her team’s work has been featured in thousands of media outlets, from the Washington Post and CNN to CBS and NBC News, since March 2020. Dr. Gardner is a specialist in modeling infectious disease risk. On this topic she has received research funding from U.S. organizations, published around 100 scholarly articles, and supervises a research group of PhD students and post docs. Prior to joining JHU in 2019, Gardner was a senior lecturer in civil engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, in Australia.