Research Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management
Research Assistant Professor, Public Health Dynamics Lab
7132 Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 R-znvy: ztx3@cvgg.rqh Primary Phone: 967-838-2510
I work with the modeling and simulation platform FRED (Framework for Reconstructing Epidemiological Dynamics), developed by the Public Health Dynamics Laboratory at Pitt Public Health. FRED is an agent-based modeling system that has been used to simulate diverse scenarios such as infectious disease outbreaks, impact of mitigation strategies, and responses to emergency situations. I have contributed to a number of FRED projects, including the addition of long-term demographic dynamics, travel simulation, impact of behavior on vaccination dynamics, population-level income changes over time, development of behavioral risk models of alcohol-related problems and modeling the opioid epidemic. I have also worked on the development of a model to estimate impact of interventions on deficits in health care resources and to a model that explored the relationship of social determinants to cardiovascular disease risk. Currently, PHDL is modeling COVID-19 and influenza.
2008 | University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA | PhD
Guest Lecturer, PUBHLT 2016
Guest Lecturer, BCHS 2990
Guest Lecturer, EPIDEM/IDM 2161