Email sungmok@nus.edu.sg

Dr. Sung-mok Jung is a Senior Research Fellow at the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health. His research focuses on the dynamics and control of infectious diseases, with a focus on predicting epidemic trajectories and evaluating the potential impact of intervention strategies. In particular, he is interested in integrating dynamics and statistical modeling approaches with real-world data and novel data streams to generate actionable insights that advance public health preparedness and outbreak response at both national and global levels.

• NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health
• Visiting Research Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Visiting Research Fellow, Nagasaki University
• Visiting Research Fellow, Busan National University

• Infectious disease modeling
• Infectious disease epidemiology

• PhD, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University (2022)
• MPH, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University (2018)
• BE, School of Life and Environmental Science, Catholic University of Korea (2015)

• Next-generation Leader, The 2nd World Congress of Korean Scientists & Engineers (2024)

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2022–2025)
• JSPS PD Fellow, School of Public Health, Kyoto University (2022–2022)

• Consultant, National COVID-19 Taskforce, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan (2020–2022)
• Consultant, National COVID-19 Taskforce, Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (2021–2022)

• Jung, S-m.*, Loo, S. L., Howerton, E., Contamin, L., Smith, C. P., Carcelén, E. C., … & Truelove, S. (2025). Scenario projections of COVID-19 burden in the United States, 2024–2025. JAMA Network Open, 8(9):e2532469
• Jung, S-m.*, Jung, J. & Lessler, J. (2025). Evaluating the effect of public health and social measures under rapid changes in population-level immunity against SARS-CoV-2: a mathematical modeling study. Epidemiology, 10-1097.
• Jung, S-m., Miura, F., Murayama, H., Funk, S., Wallinga, J., Lessler, J. & Endo, A. (2025). Dynamic landscape of mpox importation risks driven by heavy-tailed sexual contact networks among men who have sex with men in 2022. The Journal of Infectious Diseases, jiae433.
• Jung, S-m., Loo, S. L., Howerton, E., Contamin, L., Smith, C. P., Carcelén, E. C., … & Lessler, J. (2024). Potential impact of annual vaccination with reformulated COVID-19 vaccines: lessons from the US COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub. PLOS Medicine, e1004387.
• Jung, S-m.*, Kang, H., Jung, B. K., Ju, S., Ju, J. W., Lee, M. R., … & Kim, S. H. (2024). Age, period, and cohort effects of Clonorchis sinensis infection prevalence in the Republic of Korea: Insights and projections. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 18(10), e0012574.