Jessica Metcalf is a demographer with broad interests in evolutionary ecology, infectious disease dynamics and public policy. She completed her PhD at Imperial College on the evolutionary demography of monocarpic perennials. Her post-doctoral research was conducted at various institutions. She studied the evolution of senescence at the Max Planck Institute of Demographic Research, the inference of tree demographic parameters at Duke University, and infectious disease dynamics at Pennsylvania State University…

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Sarah Leavitt is a fifth-year biostatistics doctoral candidate at Boston University. Sarah's research has been primarily focused on infectious disease research particularly tuberculosis. Her major projects include investigating spatial and temporal trends in TB care in South Africa and developing novel methods link cases in order to estimate the serial interval and reproductive number. Site: https://github.com/sarahleavitt

Brooke Nichols, PhD, MSc, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health at Boston University. She is a health economist and infectious disease mathematical modeler. Dr. Nichols’ research experience and interests include modelling and economic evaluation of treatment as prevention (HIV and HCV) and pre-exposure prophylaxis (HIV), geospatial modelling for efficient resource allocation, and translating research into public policy recommendations. Site: https://profiles.bu.edu/Brooke.Nichols

Dr. Lauren M. Childs is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Virginia Tech. She develops and analyzes mathematical and computational models to examine biologically-motivated questions. A main focus of her work is understanding the pathogenesis and spread of infectious diseases, particularly those transmitted by mosquitoes, such as malaria and dengue. She considers the interactions within a host organism, such as between an invading pathogen and the immune…

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Ben Lopman is Professor of Epidemiology at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health.  He is an infectious disease epidemiologist with a research focus on vaccines and enteric viruses. His group conducts research globally and in the United States. Prior to joining the RSPH faculty in 2016, Dr. Lopman was with the Division of Viral Diseases at CDC where he led programs on enteric viruses and vaccine epidemiology.  Dr.…

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