(Former Bio) Tyler S. Brown is a clinical fellow in the Infectious Diseases Division, Massachusetts General Hospital and a postdoctoral research fellow at CCDD, working under the mentorship of Caroline Buckee. Tyler received his MD from Johns Hopkins University and was a Howard Hughes Medical Research Fellow at the University of Maryland during medical school. He has previously worked in malaria and lymphatic filariasis control on the Thai-Myanmar border. His…
(Former bio) Mary Bushman (they/she) is an instructor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Mary has a B.A. in Mathematics from Carleton College and a Ph.D. in Population Biology, Ecology and Evolution from Emory University, and worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Rustom Antia at Emory University and then with Bill Hanage in the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at HSPH. While…
(Former Bio) Francisco grew up in Queens, New York, studied computer science at Stanford University, then got involved with infectious disease modeling research at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is currently studying medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago. His favorite sports are basketball and ultimate; favorite board game is The Resistance.
(Former Bio) Flavia Camponovo was a postdoctoral research fellow working under the mentorship of Prof. Caroline Buckee in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her work at CCDD focused on population dynamics of Malaria. Prior to this postdoc position, Flavia received a Master in Science of Bioengineering in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technologies (EPFL), and a PhD in Epidemiology at the Swiss…
(Former Bio) Hailing from the warm weather of Tijuana, Baja California and San Diego, Fausto has been interested in tropical infectious diseases for over a decade. His current work applying current biostatistical methods to better understand the epidemiological and spatial spread of dengue virus, chikungunya virus, and Zika virus. Fausto also consults with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on foodborne illnesses (particularly campylobacteriosis) in the US. While at…
(Former Bio) Hsiao-Han Chang was a Research Associate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health working with Marc Lipsitch and Caroline Buckee. Before coming to the Center, Hsiao-Han was at the department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, where she obtained her PhD with Daniel Hartl and John Wakeley. Her doctoral research focused on genomic variation and evolution of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. She…
(Former Bio) Rose Chang received her Doctor of Science in Epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her doctoral research focused on the application of population genomics and mathematical modeling approaches to understand the epidemiology of healthcare-associated bacterial pathogens.
(Former Bio) Dr. Childs develops mathematical models and computational tools to address fundamental biological questions. Her current research focuses on combining immunological within-host dynamics with epidemiological spread of disease to understand patterns of transmission. Her past research includes mathematical and computational models with applications to infectious diseases, immunology, CRISPR and coupled oscillators. Click here for more information about Lauren Childs.
(Former Bio) Sarah Cobey, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago. Dr. Cobey received her PhD in ecology and evolution from the University of Michigan in 2009. After a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard School of Public Health, she joined the faculty at the University of Chicago. Dr. Cobey’s research focuses on the coevolutionary dynamics of pathogens and hosts’ adaptive…
(Former Bio) Tori Cowger completed a doctorate at the CCDD in Population Health Sciences concentrating in infectious disease epidemiology. Prior to her doctoral studies, she earned a B.S. in biochemistry from the University of Minnesota and an MPH in epidemiology at Emory University. After graduation, she worked as an epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) working on global tuberculosis (TB) research and prevention efforts. Her…
