Joseph Lewnard

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

(Former Bio) Joseph Lewnard, PhD, was a postdoctoral research fellow with Marc Lipsitch in the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at HSPH. Joe completed his doctoral studies in infectious disease modeling in the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at Yale in 2017. His doctoral work included projects in statistical inference of weak immunity for pathogens such as rotavirus and Streptococcus pneumoniae, and modeling transmission dynamics of neglected tropical disease…

Lucy Li

Director of Infectious Disease Modeling, The Public Health Company
CCDD Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2017-2018

(Former Bio) Lucy Li is the Director of Infectious Disease Modeling at The Public Health Company. Previously, she worked as a Data Scientist at the Chan Zuckerberg BioHub. Lucy was a CCDD postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Chan School working with Dr. Marc Lipsitch. Her research focused on developing statistical inference methods that analyze diverse sources of infectious disease data. She also worked with data from a pneumococcal vaccine trial to…

Derek MacFadden

Chair in Antibiotic Use and Antibiotic Resistance, University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine
CCDD PhD Student

(Former Bio) Derek MacFadden was a Doctoral Student in the Hanage Lab and graduated in 2019. Derek’s research interests include evaluating new diagnostic approaches for bacterial and viral infections in community and hospital settings, as well as epidemiological factors related to transmission of antimicrobial resistance.

Lerato Magosi

Research Associate
Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (CCDD)

(Former Bio) Lerato is a statistical geneticist with research interests in infectious disease dynamics and cardiovascular genetics. She received her PhD from Oxford University in Cardiovascular Medicine where she developed statistical methods to dissect heterogeneity in genetic association meta-analyses. At CCDD Lerato’s work will center on developing and applying statistical and computational methods to investigate HIV transmission dynamics using large-scale pathogen genomic data in order to evaluate the impact of…

Ayesha Mahmud

Assistant Professor, Department of Demography, University of California at Berkeley
Planetary Health Fellow

(Former Bio) Ayesha Mahmud received her B.A. in Physics and Economics from Carleton College, Minnesota and completed her PhD in Demography from Princeton University, where she was a member of the Metcalf and Grenfell labs. Ayesha is broadly interested in the interplay between human demography and infectious disease dynamics. Her dissertation research examined the social, demographic, and environmental drivers of the transmission dynamics and mortality of common childhood infections. As a 2017-2019…

Michael Martin

CCDD Master's student

(Former Bio) Michael Martin was a Masters of Science student in Infectious Disease Epidemiology. Prior to coming to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, he studied biophysics as an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University and worked as a market research analyst at IMS Health. He is interested in the use of whole genome sequencing to study infectious disease outbreaks, particularly tuberculosis.

Pamela Martinez

Assistant Professor of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

(Former Bio) Pamela Martinez was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health working with Caroline Buckee and Marc Lipsitch in the Department of Epidemiology. She received her Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago in 2017. During her Ph.D., Pamela conducted research on the interaction of ecological and evolutionary mechanisms driving pathogens diversity and their population structure, under the guidance of…

Pablo Martinez de Salazar Munoz

Senior Scientific Collaborator, Swiss TPH
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (CCDD)

(Former Bio) Pablo earned his MD from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and his Doctorate in Medicine from University of Tübingen. His doctoral thesis focused on the treatment of malaria with artemisinin-based combination therapy in a paediatric population at the University of Tübingen and the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Gabon. Pablo also completed his specialist training in clinical microbiology and parasitology at the Vall d’Hebron Hospital in Barcelona and proceeded to…

Michael Mina

Chief Science Officer at eMed Digital Healthcare

(Former Bio) Dr. Michael Mina, MD, PhD was an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and a core member of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (CCDD). He was an Assistant Professor in Immunology and Infectious Diseases at HSPH and Associate Medical Director in Clinical Microbiology (molecular diagnostics) in the Department of Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He is…

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Moriah Mitchell

Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology

(Former Bio) Moriah was a graduate student in the Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology Program. She is interested in studying antibody repertoire dynamics at the population, community, and individual levels. Outside of lab, Moriah enjoys spending time with her horse, baking, sewing, and powerlifting.