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…
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.
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…
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…
Eva is a PhD student in Population Health Sciences concentrating in infectious disease epidemiology, advised by Dr. Marc Lipsitch. She previously graduated from the Master of Science in infectious disease epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and worked at CCDD as a research assistant on COVID-19 modelling projects. Prior to coming to Harvard, she studied public policy and global health at SciencesPo and biology at Sorbonne…
Beau Schaeffer is a second year Master of Science student studying infectious disease epidemiology under the mentorship of Dr. Bill Hanage. He graduated from The University of Alabama with a B.S. in microbiology. Currently, his research explores patterns of viral transmission and evolution using a combination of epidemiologic and genomic data. This work is motivated by a desire to better understand how the complexities of the microbial world influence pathogen…
Alex is an epidemiologist from northern Germany and previously studied at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, University of Oxford, and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Alex earned graduate degrees in global health science and global disease epidemiology and control, and his experience spans national disease surveillance, disease modeling, and pandemic response research. His primary research interests include infectious disease epidemiology, public health surveillance, and pandemic preparedness…
