Kimberly Powers

Kimberly A. Powers
Kimberly A. Powers
Alma mater	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Hamilton College;
	Scientific career
Institutions	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; The University of New Mexico; Los Alamos National Laboratory;
Thesis	HIV transmission dynamics: Infectivity, sexual partnership patterns, and the role of early infection (2010)
Doctoral advisor	Myron S. Cohen

Kimberly A. Powers is an American epidemiologist who is an associate professor of epidemiology at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. She combines epidemiology, statistics and mathematical modelling to understand the transmission of infectious diseases. In 2011 her work on antiretroviral therapy for the management of human immunodeficiency virus was selected by Science as the breakthrough of the year. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Powers looked to understand the spread of SARS-CoV-2.

Kimberly A. Powers
Alma mater	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Hamilton College
Scientific career
Institutions	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of New Mexico Los Alamos National Laboratory
Thesis	HIV transmission dynamics: Infectivity, sexual partnership patterns, and the role of early infection (2010)
Doctoral advisor	Myron S. Cohen