Dr. Qi Tan is a research fellow working on TB study with Prof. Megan Murray at Harvard Medical School since 2019. she was previously a pulmonary physician caring for patients with lung disease and TB in a provincial medical center in China and dedicated in a long-term clinical cohort study on cytokine therapy for MDR-TB patients between 2008 and 2018. After that she got postdoc training at UMass Medical School…
Tigist is a doctoral student studying infectious disease epidemiology, advised by Dr. Caroline Buckee. Her research interests lie in the application of diverse statistical tools – including machine learning-based methods, spatial statistics, and traditional dynamic models – for infectious disease surveillance, with a focus on data-limited settings and marginalized populations. Prior to joining Harvard, she received her A.B. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, with certificates (minors) in Global Health and…
Suzana Kim joined CCDD in January 2024 as the Program Coordinator. She completed her BS in Applied Nutrition at Montclair State University (NJ) and MPH with a Policy and Management concentration at the University of Arizona. Here, she also worked as an outreach coordinator to connect uninsured Arizonans with health insurance enrollment navigators; graduate research assistant to assist the University in making informed COVID-related decisions; and project manager on exciting…
Eva is a PhD student in Population Health Sciences concentrating in infectious disease epidemiology, advised by Dr. Marc Lipsitch. She previously graduated from the Master of Science in infectious disease epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and worked at CCDD as a research assistant on COVID-19 modelling projects. Prior to coming to Harvard, she studied public policy and global health at SciencesPo and biology at Sorbonne…
Beau Schaeffer is a second year PhD student studying infectious disease epidemiology under the mentorship of Dr. Bill Hanage. He holds a B.S. in Microbiology from The University of Alabama and an S.M. in Epidemiology from the Harvard Chan School. Currently, his research interests include exploring pathogen evolution at the within-host and population level as well as applying causal inference methods to infectious disease problems.
QinQin is a Postdoctoral Fellow interested in understanding how and why pathogens evolve, what effect this has for disease spread, and what interventions can slow the spread of disease. Her current work is on the evolutionary dynamics of N. gonorrhoeae in response to pressures from the host adaptive immune system and equity in wastewater monitoring. QinQin completed her PhD in biophysics at UC Berkeley where she studied the role of…
Jesse Aspinwall-Rezende was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil and raised in Hingham, MA. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in International Management from the University of Massachusetts-Boston in 2011. After graduating, Jesse wanted to pursue a job where he would have a mission in helping people. After working one year as a fund account administrator at Brown Brother Harriman, Jesse decided to change jobs and found Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese…
Ye Shen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Decision Sciences track of the Health Policy program at Harvard University. She is interested in using disease simulation models and decision analytic methods to better inform health policy topics intersecting the social safety net for underserved and vulnerable populations. She is currently developing a disease simulation model of dental caries progression and conducting decision analyses of strategies to scale up delivery of…
Caroline Thomas is the Research Program Coordinator for the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard Chan School. She received a BSA in Neuroscience from the University of Texas at Austin where she completed a thesis investigating the efficacy and epidemiology of employing pharmacotherapies for pediatric ADHD. Caroline has conducted clinical research investigating the link between cognition and emotion and managed the delivery of large-scale public health programming to…
(Former Bio) Nadia’s current research focuses on the use of mathematical models to better understand the impact of treatment and prevention strategies on HIV incidence and prevalence in Sub-Saharan Africa. The goals of her program of research are to use quantitative methods and novel data streams to better understand the inequalities in health care distribution and access in domestic and international settings. Click here for more information on Nadia Abuelezam.
