Minttu Rönn

Minttu Rönn is a Research Scientist in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Originally from Finland, she earned her BSc in General Microbiology from the University of Helsinki. Minttu relocated to London, UK, to pursue studies in public health, and she has obtained MPH and PhD in Infectious Disease Epidemiology degrees from Imperial College London.

Her research utilizes mathematical modeling to inform decision-making in the field of sexually transmitted infections (STI) and HIV. Her interests are in infectious disease epidemiology, HIV-STI co-infections, and social determinants of health.

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Rönn, M., Kourtis, A., Liang, Y., Zheng, L., Puente, T., Huang, Y., Zhu, W., Patel, R., Weiner, J., Hoover, K., Van Handel, M., Menzies, N., & Salomon, J. (2026). Quantifying the number of people who would benefit from HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in the United States: A comparison of behavioral, acquisition-risk based, and economic metrics. Annals of Epidemiology, 118, 11079. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2026.110079
Oliveira Roster, K., Rönn, M., Elder, H., Gift, T., Roosevelt, K., Salomon, J., Hsu, K., & Grad, Y. (2025). Estimating the undetected burden and the likelihood of strain persistence of drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae. American Journal of Epidemiology, 194(10), 2861-2869. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwae455
Rönn, M., Chesson, H., Grad, Y., Reitsma, M., Zhu, L., Hsu, K., Gift, T., & Salomon, J. (2025). The influence of epidemiological context on the success of partner notification programs: Analysis of gonorrhea transmission dynamics. Journal of Infectious Disease, 232(2), e266-e274. https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiaf206
Bronsard, M., Sabety, A., Rönn, M., Swartwood, N., & Salomon, J. (2025). Use of No-Cost Preventive Services Jeopardized by Kennedy v Braidwood. JAMA Health Forum, 6(4), e251559. https://doi.org/doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2025.1559
Yin, X., Li, Y., Ronn, M., Li, S., Yuan, Y., Gift, T., Hsu, K., Salomon, J., Grad, Y., & Yaesoubi, R. (2024). Assessing thresholds of resistance prevalence at which empiric treatment of gonorrhea should change among men who have sex with men in the US: A cost-effectiveness analysis. PLOS Medicine, 21(7), e1004424. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004424
Rönn, M., Menzies, N., & Salomon, J. (2023). Vaccination and voting patterns in the U.S.: Analysis of COVID-19 and flu surveys from 2010 to 2022. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 65(3), 458-466. https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.amepre.2023.03.001
Li, Y., Rönn, M., Tuite, A., Chesson, H., Gift, T., Trikalinos, T., Testa, C., Bellerose, M., Hsu, K., Berruti, A., Malyuta, Y., Menzies, N., & Salomon, J. (2022). Estimated costs and quality-adjusted life-years lost due to N. gonorrhoeae infections acquired in 2015 in the United States: A modelling study of overall burden and disparities by age, race/ethnicity, and other factors. Lancet Regional Health Americas, 16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2022.100364
Lee, K., You, S., Li, Y., Chesson, H., Gift, T., Berruti, A., Hsu, K., Yaesoubi, R., Salomon, J., & Rönn, M. (2022). Estimation of the lifetime quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) lost due to syphilis acquired in the United States in 2018. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 76(3), e810–e819. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciac427
Salomon, J., Reinhart, A., Bilinski, A., Chua, E., La Motte-Kerr , W., Rönn, M., Reitsma, M., Morris, K., LaRocca, S., Farag, T., Kreuter, K. F., Rosenfeld, R., & Tibshirani, R. (2021). The US COVID-19 trends and impact survey: Continuous real-time measurement of COVID-19 symptoms, risks, protective behaviors, testing, and vaccination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(51), e2111454118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2111454118
Tuite, A., Testa, C., Rönn, M., Bellerose, M., Gift, T., Fridge, J., Molotnikov, L., Desmarais, C., Berruti, A., Menzies, N., Malyuta, Y., Hsu, K., & Salomon, J. (2020). Exploring how epidemic context influences syphilis screening impact: A mathematical modeling study. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 47(12), 798-810. https://doi.org/10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001249
Rönn, M., Dunville, R., Wang, L., Bellerose, M., Malyuta, Y., Menzies, N., Aslam, M., Lewis, F., Walker-Baban, C., Asbel, L., Parchem, S., Masinter, L., Perez, E., Gift, T., Hsu, K., Barrios, L., & Salomon, J. (2020). Mathematical modeling study of school-based chlamydia screening: Potential impact on chlamydia prevalence in intervention schools and surrounding communities. BMC Public Health, 20(1), 1363. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09466-y
Earnest, R., Rönn, M., Bellerose, M., Gift, T., Berruti, A., Hsu, K., Testa, C., Zhu, L., Malyuta, Y., Menzies, N., & Salomon, J. (2020). Population-level benefits of extragenital gonorrhea screening among men who have sex with men: An exploratory modeling analysis. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 47(7), 484-490. https://doi.org/10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001189
Rönn, M., Menzies, N., Gift, T., Chesson, H., Trikalinos, T., Bellerose, M., Malyuta, Y., Berruti, A., Gaydos, C., Hsu, K., & Salomon, J. (2020). Potential for point-of-care tests to reduce chlamydia-associated burden in the United States: A mathematical modeling analysis. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 70(9), 1816-1823. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz519
Rönn, M., Testa, C., Tuite, A., Chesson, H., Gift, T., Schumacher, C., Williford, S., Zhu, L., Bellerose, M., Earnest, R., Malyuta, Y., Hsu, K., Salomon, J., & Menzies, N. (2020). The potential population-level impact of different gonorrhea screening strategies in Baltimore and San Francisco: An exploratory mathematical modeling analysis. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 47(3), 143-150. https://doi.org/10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001108
Rönn, M., Tuite, A., Menzies, N., Wolf, E., Gift, T., Chesson, H., Torrone, E., Berruti, A., Mazzola, A., Galer, K., Hsu, K., & Salomon, J. (2019). The impact of screening and partner notification on chlamydia prevalence and numbers of infections averted in the United States, 2000–2015: Evaluation of epidemiologic trends using a pair-formation transmission model. American Journal of Epidemiology, 188(3), 545-554. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwy272
Tuite, A., Rönn, M., Wolf, E., Gift, T., Chesson, H., Berruti, A., Galer, K., Menzies, N., Hsu, K., & Salomon, J. (2018). Estimated impact of screening on gonorrhea epidemiology in the United States: Insights from a mathematical model. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 45(11), 713-722. https://doi.org/10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000876
Rönn, M., Wolf, E., Chesson, H., Menzies, N., Galer, K., Gorwitz, R., Gift, T., Hsu, K., & Salomon, J. (2017). The use of mathematical models of chlamydia transmission to address public health policy questions: A systematic literature review. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 44(5), 278-283. https://doi.org/10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000598