Benjamin John Cowling MBE (born 11 June 1979) is a British epidemiologist and medical statistician.
[4][8] After his PhD, Cowling joined Imperial College London as a postdoctoral research statistician.
[12][13] He now heads the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control at HKU.
[14] Cowling's research is mostly about infectious disease epidemiology, including field studies of respiratory virus transmission,[15] the effectiveness of influenza vaccines[16] and infection immunity.
[22][23][24][25][26] Currently outside HKU, Cowling is the editor-in-chief of Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses,[27] a member of the MIDAS network (a group of global infectious disease experts that study them with computational methods),[28] a member of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard T.H.