Professor Yaneer Bar-Yam is co-founder of the World Health Network and founder of the New England Complex Systems Institute. He is a pandemic expert who has advised the UN, WHO, the US NSC, CMS, and CDC. He has warned about global pandemics for 15 years and contributed outbreak response protocols for stopping Ebola in Africa in 2014, which succeeded. He is an MIT-trained physicist, and complexity scientist. Since the late 1980s, Bar-Yam has contributed to founding the field of complexity science, introducing fundamental mathematical rigor, real-world application, and educational programs for new concepts and insights of this field. His work quantitatively analyzes the origins and impacts of market crashes, social unrest, ethnic violence, military conflict and pandemics, and the structure and dynamics of social networks.
