Aishani is a junior at Harvard College and is in the Grad and Lipsitch Labs, interested broadly on questions of preparedness in infectious diseases. She is currently working on modeling within-host kinetics of SARS-CoV-2, CRISPR-Cas13-based diagnostic testing for antibiotic susceptibility in Neisseria gonorrhoea, and understanding the role of viral discovery in zoonotic hosts in outbreak preparedness and response. She previously focused on seroprevalence studies and rapid antigen testing in the…
Ruchita is a PhD student in Population Health Sciences concentrating in infectious disease epidemiology, advised by Dr. Bill Hanage. She graduated from Princeton University in 2019 with a degree in Molecular Biology and minors in Engineering Biology and Global Health and Health Policy, and additionally received an MPhil in Veterinary Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 2021. Prior to coming to Harvard, she was awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Student Research…
Taylor Chin is a PhD student concentrating in infectious disease epidemiology, advised by Dr. Caroline Buckee. She graduated from Princeton University with a BA in Public and International Affairs and a minor in Global Health Policy. She earned her MS in Epidemiology in 2019 from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Prior to graduate school, she worked as a strategy consultant at EY-Parthenon. Her research interests center on…
Katherine is a PhD student in Population Health Sciences concentrating in infectious disease epidemiology. Her research interests are in transmission dynamics and its human and pathogen determinants, and their interactions. Prior to coming to CCDD, she was trained in epidemiology in Hong Kong and in the United Kingdom, and worked as a research assistant in Imperial College London on model-based HIV incidence estimation.
Keya is a PhD student in Population Health Sciences concentrating in infectious disease epidemiology, advised by Dr. Marc Lipsitch. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a degree in Public Health Studies with a minor in Applied Mathematics & Statistics and Entrepreneurship & Management. She received her MHS in infectious disease epidemiology from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2017. Her research interests include the development and application…
Maddy is a PhD student in the Infectious Disease Epidemiology track of the PHS program advised by Dr. Yonatan Grad. She is also student in the Harvard Medical School MD-PhD program, and completed her first two years of medical school at HMS/BWH. Maddy studied chemistry and biology with a minor in Spanish at MIT, where she graduated (virtually) in 2020. She is interested in the genomics and evolution of infectious…
Tiffany Lemon is an infectious disease epidemiology doctoral student at Dr. Seage’s lab. A native of Opelousas, Louisiana, Tiffany received a BS in Biochemistry from Louisiana State University and an MSPH in Global Epidemiology from the Emory Rollins School of Public Health. Previously, Tiffany has conducted HIV research as an HHMI EXROP scholar at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard and as an HHMI International Scholar at the…
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…
Emily Reichert is a MS student in infectious disease epidemiology. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BS in Quantitative Biology and a minor in Statistics. Prior to graduate school, she worked as a research analyst at RTI International conducting program evaluation and implementation, primarily for federal programs. She also has experience working both at PATH (Seattle, WA) and with the Infectious Disease Epidemiology…
