Lowell Reed was 7th president of the Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

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 in Baltimore

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, Maryland

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He had a long career as a research scientist in biostatistics

Biostatistics

Biostatistics is the application of statistics to a wide range of topics in biology...

 and public health

Public health

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 administration at Hopkins, where he was previously dean and director of the School of Public Health and later as vice president in charge of medical activities. As a researcher, he developed a well known statistical technique for estimating the ED-50, and his work with epidemiologist Wade Hampton Frost

Wade Hampton Frost

Wade Hampton Frost was born in Marshall, Virginia. He received his B.A. in 1901 and his M.D. in 1903, both from the University of Virginia....

 on the Reed-Frost epidemic model

Reed-Frost model

The Reed-Frost model is a mathematical model of epidemics put forth in the 1920s by Lowell Reed and Wade Hampton Frost, of the Johns Hopkins University....

s also remains well known.