Dr. Al-Aly a physician-scientist; he directs the Clinical Epidemiology Center and serves as the Chief of Research and Development Service at the VA Saint Louis Health Care System. He is a clinical epidemiologist with broad interests including pharmacoepidemiology, environmental epidemiology, global health, and most recently short- and long-term effects of COVID 19 on health outcomes.
He has published extensively in several major journals including Nature, Nature Medicine, BMJ, JAMA, JAMA-Internal Medicine, Lancet, NEJM, and others. According to Google Scholar, his work has been cited more than 50,000 times. His work is frequently featured in major national and international media outlets including New York Times, NPR, BBC, CNN, the Guardian, Bloomberg, The New Yorker, the Atlantic, and several others.
