Mui is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Lipsitch lab and Grad lab, interested in understanding driving factors in explaining infection and antimicrobial resistance trends. Her research focuses on defining these trends for healthcare-associated pathogens using data from the US Veterans Health Administration and from the Alberta Health Services in Canada, and developing mathematical models to study the relationship between antibiotic use and resistance. Mui studied Mathematics at RWTH Aachen…
Maddy is a Population Health Sciences PhD student in Infectious Disease Epidemiology advised by Dr. Yonatan Grad. She is also a student in the Harvard Medical Schol MD-PhD program and completed her first two years of medical school at HMS/BWH. Maddy studied chemistry and biology with a minor in Spanish at MIT and graduated in 2020. She is interested in the genomics and evolution of infectious diseases, especially in the…
Nicole is a PhD candidate in Population Health Sciences (infectious disease epidemiology concentration), advised by Dr. Mauricio Santillana. Her research interests center on digital epidemiology, particularly the creation and application of machine intelligence methods that leverage disparate digital data sources to augment infectious disease surveillance infrastructure. Prior to her PhD, Nicole held a number of positions in the biotech sector. She received her B.S. in biological engineering from MIT.
Kirstin is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Yonatan Grad, where she develops mathematical models to compare genomic surveillance strategies. She recently completed her PhD in Computational Mathematics at the University of São Paulo, where she applied machine learning and causal inference to study the spread of vector-borne diseases in Brazil. Prior to her PhD studies, Kirstin was a data scientist at the World Bank Group and has worked…
Diego Liang is a master’s student in Global Health and Population working with Dr. Minttu Rönn investigating racial/ethnic disparities in congenital syphilis. They are also examining heterogeneity in HIV acquisition risk among people who inject drugs (PWID) in the United States. Apart from his current research, Diego is also interested in using the value of information techniques to quantify decision uncertainty in real-world settings. Diego earned his BS in Public…
Abby is the senior project manager for a CDC-funded award focusing on mathematical modeling development to improve national and global responses to emerging health threats. She also spearheads strategic planning, fundraising and development efforts at CCDD, working closely with leadership. Abby brings deep connections to the global and public health community at Harvard and beyond, with past roles at the Harvard Global Health Institute and Global Health Delivery Project at…
Ilan Rubin is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health interested in how evolution affects epidemiological dynamics. After graduating with a BA in Computational Biology from Cornell University, he worked in epidemiological and disaster response modeling at Gryphon Scientific. He then worked at Georgia Tech modeling Ebola transmission dynamics and mitigation efforts. He received his PhD from…
Alicia Madden is a second-year Master of Science student in Megan Murray’s research group at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology, and she has previously done HIV protein crystallography and research on SARS-CoV-2 population immunity. Alicia hopes to draw from both immunology and epidemiology to understand emerging infectious diseases. She is currently…
Nancy Jingyi Li is a first year Master’s of Science student in Infectious Disease Epidemiology. She completed her undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley in immunology, public health and human rights. Prior to coming to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, she worked in vaccine-preventable disease epidemiology and surveillance at the California Department of Public Health.
Laurie Coe will be joining the CCDD as the Director of Research and Administration on Nov 1, 2022. She’s a seasoned project manager with 20+ years of experience managing public health programs. Laurie has worked with the Cochrane Collaboration supporting the development and dissemination of systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials; the MA Department of Public Health implementing programs to improve health outcomes related to stroke and multiple chronic diseases;…
