Jonathan D. Quick, MD, MPH (“Jono”) is an internationally recognized global health leader and author of The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It (2020 Australian, Italian, Korean, South Asia, U.K. and U.S. editions). His current research focuses on market-driven epidemics, from tobacco to opioids, ultra-processed foods, firearms, commercial milk formula and social media. He is an adjunct Professor of Global Health at the Duke Global Health Institute (Durham, NC) and Affiliated Faculty in Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA). He has held senior leadership positions at the World Health Organization, The Rockefeller Foundation, and Management Sciences for Health, during which he carried out assignments in more than 70 countries. His publications also include Managing Access to Medicines and Health Technologies (MDS-3), the Financial Times Guide to Executive Health, and more than 100 other books, chapters, and articles in leading medical journals. Dr. Quick has appeared on North American, European, and Asia media, including the BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, ABC News, MSNBC, and Bloomberg. He was a resident and chief resident in the Duke Family Medicine program, graduated sum cum laude from Harvard College, and received his MD with distinction in research and MPH from the University of Rochester.
Eszter Rimányi is a chronic disease epidemiologist working with Dr. Jonathan D. Quick at the Duke Global Health Institute. Her research interest centers around Market-Driven Epidemics, including tobacco, sugar, opioids, and breastmilk substitute/infant formula. She is currently working on applying the market-driven epidemics approach to new epidemics, such as social media and firearms. Rimányi has authored scientific papers in journals such as PloS Global Public Health and MDPI and journalistic pieces in TIME and The Conversation. She graduated with her BA in Epidemiology Policy from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Fall of 2023.
Kate Elosta is a Duke Kunshan University and Duke University alumna with a B.S. in Global Health, Biology. She is a research assistant with the DGHI’s Market-Driven Epidemics Initiative, where she leads stakeholder analysis and investigates the social, policy, and commercial drivers of U.S. firearm mortality trends. She also contributes to research on the commercial milk formula market, examining the U.S. infant formula shortage and its implications for maternal and child health. Kate is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Physiology through Georgetown University School of Medicine’s Special Master’s Program, with interests in translational biomedical research, public health policy, and medicine.
Nicholas Hoffmann is a rising junior at Duke University studying biology and global health. A part of the Duke Global Health Institute’s Market-Driven Epidemics Initiative research team for more than a year, he is interested in public health research and advocacy. He is currently leading MDE research on the dynamics of U.S. firearm mortality trends, analyzing differences in mortality rates through an actionable public health lens.
Vaya Chhabra recently graduated from Duke University with a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Global Health. As an undergraduate researcher with Dr. Jonathan Quick at the Duke Global Health Institute, she completed an honors thesis examining chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in the National Football League through the Market-Driven Epidemics framework. She is currently working on publications stemming from her CTE research and contributing to research strategies to prevent future MDEs. She plans to pursue a career in medicine with a focus on global health.
Other Team Members:
Zain Jafar
Velda Wang
Rimányi E, Quick JD, Yamey G, Immurana M, Malik VS, Doherty T, et al.
Jafar Z, Quick JD, Larson HJ, Venegas-Vera AV, Napoli PM, KS Meena, et al.
5-phase framework for tobacco, sugar, opioids.
Rimányi E, Quick JD,
“Products Can Harm People for Decades Before Companies Change. Here’s How to Stop Them.” TIME, 9 August 2024. Jonathan D. Quick, Gavin Yamey, and Eszter Rimányi.
“Companies keep selling harmful products – but history shows consumers can win in the end.” The Conversation. 30 Sept 2024. Jonathan D. Quick, Eszter Rimanyi.
“The Leading Voices in Food” Podcast E258: Do ‘market driven epidemics’ drive your food choices? Hosted by: Kelly Brownell, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University. December 18, 2024.
“Conversations on Healthcare” Radio Podcast series, Episode 6. Aired November 24, 2024 on Duke radio station WXDU. Discussed tobacco use in youth, the science behind compulsive overconsumption, and what individuals can do to compulsively consume less.
Think Global, DUKE
040 Trent Hall, plus Zoom webinar
Feb 19, 2025 12:00 PM
From Marlboro to Meta: Combatting the Health Impacts of Market-Driven Epidemics