Sarah Cobey, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology & 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 immune responses.…
Dr. Cohen is an infectious disease epidemiologist with a primary research focus on tuberculosis. He is particularly interested in understanding how TB drug-resistance and medical comorbidities such as HIV frustrate current efforts to control epidemics, with an ultimate goal of developing more effective approaches to limit the morbidity caused by this pathogen. Dr. Cohen’s training is in epidemiology and clinical medicine, and his work includes mathematical modeling, fieldwork, and analysis…
Prof Cowling joined the School of Public Health at HKU in 2004. Prior to moving to Hong Kong, he graduated with a PhD in medical statistics at the University of Warwick (UK) in 2003, and spent a year as a postdoc at Imperial College London (UK). Prof Cowling has been the Head of the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics since 2013, he is responsible for teaching introductory modules in epidemiology…
Nir Eyal is Henry Rutgers Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Center for Population–Level Bioethics at Rutgers University. Dr. Eyal is also a faculty member within the Rutgers Department of Philosophy. Eyal’s writing explores many aspects of global and population-level bioethics: Health inequalities Ethics in disaster prevention and response Research ethics Health promotion Ethical questions in health system design Articles by Prof. Eyal appeared in Science Magazine, New England Journal of…
Daniel Larremore is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the BioFrontiers Institute, and an affiliate of the Department of Applied Mathematics, at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research develops statistical inference methods for analyzing epidemiological and network data, focusing on generative models for networks, the ongoing evolution and genetic epidemiology of malaria parasites, and the incorporation and propagation of uncertainty in epidemiological models. Prior to…
Mauricio Santillana, PhD, MSc is the director of the Machine Intelligence Research Lab in the Network Science Institute. He is a Professor in the Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments at Northeastern University. Mauricio enjoys working with public health officials and clinicians in the design of decision-making support tools by leveraging Internet-based data sources such as Electronic Health Records, Bedside Monitors, Google search trends, Twitter microblogs, News Alerts, Weather,…
Joseph Wu leads the infectious disease modeling research in the HKU School of Public Health. His primary research is in influenza epidemiology and control with a focus on pandemic preparedness and response. He earned his PhD in Operations Research from MIT in 2003 and BS in Chemical Engineering from MIT in 1999. His work primarily entails developing mathematical models to assess the potential benefits and resource requirement of mitigation and…
Dr. Yaesoubi’s research focuses on medical decision making and model-based evaluation of health policies. His work incorporates mathematical and computer simulation models, statistical methods, and optimization techniques to guide resource allocation and decision making in public health and health delivery systems. He has applied these methods in conducting cost-effectiveness analyses of colorectal cancer screening strategies, estimating societal willingness-to-pay for health, and characterizing performance-based payment systems for preventive care systems. His…
