Dr. Gerardo Chowell

A mathematical epidemiologist with over 15 years of experience in studying infectious disease dynamics using mathematical, statistical a computational techniques. He is a professor and the chair of the Department of Population Health Sciences at the Georgia State University School of Public Health, an adjunct faculty at ASU, and a senior research fellow in the Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies at the Fogarty International Center, NIH. He has considerable experience in the development and calibration of mathematical and computational models to investigate emerging and re-emerging infectious disease outbreaks with the goal of estimating key transmission parameters, generating disease forecast, and assessing the effects of control interventions. He has recently participated in the coordination of the Ebola Forecasting Challenge which brought together teams representing 16 institutions and government agencies, an effort that played an important role in coordinating the modeling community. His collaborative work has contributed to the development of mathematical and statistical approaches to understand the dissemination patterns and key signature features of epidemic and pandemic events. His work has appeared in high-impact journals including The New England Journal of Medicine, PLOS Medicine, PNAS, and BMC Medicine and has been cited numerous times by major media outlets including the The New York Times, The Washington Post and TIME magazine. He is currently a member of Editorial Boards of several key journals including BMC Medicine, BMC Infectious Diseases, PLOS ONE, The Journal of Infectious Disease Dynamics, and Scientific Reports.