Maria Knoll PhD

Maria Deloria Knoll is an expert in the fields of epidemiology, disease surveillance, vaccine trial conduct, and biostatistics. She currently serves as associate director of Science at the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC), an organization dedicated to accelerating global access to life-saving vaccines, at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. Maria Deloria Knoll completed her undergraduate studies in biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her PhD in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland.

Knoll has over 20 years of experience in the design, conduct, and analysis of clinical trials and epidemiological studies. She spent 13 years at the National Institute of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and her clinical trials experience there included close working relationships with many large and mid-sized vaccine manufacturers. Knoll also served as a Research Assistant Professor at Northwestern University's Department of Preventive Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, where she directed a course on clinical trial design, conduct and analysis in their MPH program, conducted cardiovascular and HIV-related epidemiological studies using data from established cohorts, and designed therapeutic clinical trials for the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. She has written many well cited original articles and is regularly an invited speaker to various international health conferences.