Arijit Chakravarty

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Dr. Arijit Chakravarty is the CEO of Fractal Therapeutics, which focuses on applying mathematical modeling to drug discovery and development. Over the past five years, he has led an interdisciplinary team of volunteers in publishing more than 20 peer-reviewed papers on COVID-19, including several focused on in-school Covid transmission. Find him on X.

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by Lyne Filiatrault Arijit Chakravarty

Let’s keep politics out of measles

No parent should have to bury their child because of measles. Unfortunately, politicizing public health by downplaying the risks of measles and normalizing vaccine hesitancy puts us on precisely this trajectory.
by Lyne Filiatrault Arijit Chakravarty David Fisman

Who’ll be Canada’s next Chief Public Health Officer? You should care

We need someone who learns from the past, applies the precautionary principle, engages with evolving science from multiple disciplines, and earns public trust by speaking hard truths.
by Lyne Filiatrault Arijit Chakravarty T. Ryan Gregory

Without an independent COVID inquiry, we are doomed to ‘rinse and repeat’ past errors

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is the biggest global health-related disaster in living memory. Yet, Canadian governments have refused to hold an independent COVID-19 inquiry into the pandemic response.

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