The Center for Leading Innovation and Collaboration, housed at the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Science (which funds the CCTS), highlighted the UK CCTS team science training program in its Insights to Inspire series.
He serves as director of the CCTS pilot program and principal investigator of the BIRCWH (Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health) program.
His book “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History” was an NYT bestseller and named by the National Academies of Science as the year’s outstanding book on science or medicine.