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I’m an infectious disease ecologist and guest researcher at the Fogarty International Center, U.S. National Institutes of Health. My research combines statistical, mathematical, and computational approaches to study respiratory virus transmission patterns and epidemiology, with aims to improve disease surveillance and better understand and predict future outbreaks. I also produce operational forecasts and scenario projections of respiratory virus outbreaks.

I previously worked as a research scientist with the Seattle Flu Study at the University of Washington and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Fogarty International Center with Dr. Cécile Viboud. I earned my PhD in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior from the University of Texas at Austin, under the direction of Dr. Lauren Ancel Meyers.

During my postgraduate training, I have related cellphone mobility to respiratory virus transmission at the city scale, linked the evolutionary and epidemiological dynamics of influenza in the United States, measured the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare seeking behavior in South Africa, and characterized the spread of influenza in a network of exhibition swine shows in the U.S. Midwest. For my PhD at UT-Austin, I studied how social network structure shapes the gut microbiomes of wild lemurs in Madagascar.