Christina Fennell

CDC Evaluation Fellow
Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology

(Former Bio) Christina Fennell was a Master of Science student in Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She graduated from Spelman College with a B.S. in Biology and a minor in Public Health. Before Harvard, she worked at Whitman-Walker Health as a Health Workshop Facilitator, and she administered HIV and STI testing services in Washington, D.C.

Virgie Fields

Public Health Analyst, Lantana Consulting Group
CCDD Student-MS, 2013-2015

(Former Bio) Virgie is currently a Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Epidemiologist at the Virginia Department of Health. Before starting her current position, she completed the CDC/CSTE Applied Epidemiology Fellowship at the Arkansas Department of Health, where she focused on HAI and other infectious disease projects. She earned a Master of Science degree in Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with a concentration in Infectious Disease Epidemiology, and a Bachelor…

Camila Franca

Research Affiliate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (CCDD)

(Former Bio) Camila T. Franca was a postdoctoral fellow in Michael Mina’s lab working to understand the development and maintenance of humoral immunity against endemic and epidemic infectious diseases. During her PhD (University of Melbourne, Australia) and previous postdocs (Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Australia and Harvard, US), Camila helped identify and prioritize targets of protective immunity against Malaria for vaccine design, and developed new human immortalized cell lines for…

Shae Gantt

Biostatistics Master's Student
Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology

(Former Bio) Shae Gantt is a first year Master of Science student in Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She graduated from the University of South Carolina Beaufort with a B.S. in Mathematics and a minor in Computer Science. She has conducted research on mathematical modeling of disease dynamics and also attended the Epidemiology Summer Program at Harvard T.H. Chan in 2019 where she…

Maria Georgieva

CCDD Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2015-2018

(Former Bio) Maria Georgieva, PhD, joined the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the fall of 2015 as a Research Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Marc Lipsitch. She received her PhD from Emory University in 2015 where she studied modulation of host immune responses by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In the Lipsitch Laboratory, Dr. Georgieva studied immune escape by antibody antigens of…

Bénédicte Gnangnon

Postdoctoral Associate, PDPA Office at Boston University
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (CCDD)

(Former Bio) Bénédicte was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working under the mentorship of both Dr. Caroline Buckee (Department of Epidemiology) and Dr. Manoj Duraisingh (Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases). Her work at CCDD focused on within-host dynamics of Malaria. Prior to this postdoc position, Bénédicte received a General Engineer degree from HEI – Hautes Etudes d’Ingénieur (Lille, France) as well as a Research Master degree in Drug Design and…

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Edward Goldstein

Biostatistician, Massachusetts Eye and Ear
Senior Research Scientist, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology

(Former Bio) Ed Goldstein received his PhD in mathematics from MIT in 2001. He has been working in infectious disease epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health since 2008. The principal themes of Ed’s research are the burden of severe outcomes associated with the circulation of respiratory viruses and risks for hospitalization and mortality carried by individuals in different population groups; the role of different population groups…

Elsa Hansen

Assistant Research Professor, The Pennsylvania State University
CCDD Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2011-2014

(Former Bio) I am a mathematical biologist, broadly interested in the evolution and ecology of infectious disease. My work focuses on re-formulating biological questions in to mathematical models that can then be analyzed. The ultimate aim of the analysis is to provide a stronger foundation for scientific study and experimentation. I am currently focused on questions about drug resistance. Click here for more information about Elsa Hansen.

James Hay

Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (CCDD)

(Former Bio) Dr James Hay was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the laboratory of Yonatan Grad at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research focused on the interaction of within-host processes with population-level transmission of viruses. Using mathematical and statistical models, he is interested in the opportunities and challenges provided by virologic and serologic assay data for tracking infectious disease dynamics. His recent focus is on the…

Matt Hitchings

Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Biology, University of Florida
PhD Student, 2013-2018

(Former Bio) Matt Hitchings earned his PhD in Epidemiology in September 2018, working with Dr. Marc Lipsitch. He is interested in using disease transmission models to aid in the design of vaccine studies, particularly in the context of emerging infections.