EpiGrad

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Infectious disease epidemiology doctoral student with a focus on the intersection of mathematical models of disease transmission and observational study methods - how observational studies can be used to parameterize models, and how models can help develop targets for observational study. Has a known, documented fondness for enteric pathogens.

Fluent in SAS, good enough in R, barely hanging on in Python and C.

Also the author of Confounded by Confounding, a blog of public health, statistics, and life as a graduate student.

Currently trying to get the 'Public Health and Epidemiology' SE site off the ground: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/34565/public-health-epidemiology

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Feb 12	answered	Is it necessary to conduct a power analysis before beginning an experiment?
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Feb 12	revised	Have there been any positive public health effects due to UV lights? edited tags
Feb 12	answered	Have there been any positive public health effects due to UV lights?
Feb 1	answered	How does the immune system “learn” from a vaccine?
Jan 21	awarded	Nice Question
Jan 18	awarded	Nice Answer
Jan 18	comment	If a human takes antibiotics are all bacteria in the body killed? Bloody autocorrect on the new OS grumble
Jan 17	answered	If a human takes antibiotics are all bacteria in the body killed?
Jan 10	answered	Why is the microbial ecosystem of the gut so susceptible to disruption by pathogens?
Jan 10	comment	Why is the microbial ecosystem of the gut so susceptible to disruption by pathogens? Keep in mind one of the most common harmful species is a native species in many people: Clostridium difficile.
Jan 9	answered	A good book for history of biology/biotechnology for lay people
Jan 7	answered	What causes the development of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria?
Dec 31	comment	What is the most difficult feature to explain evolutionarily? @KonradRudolph I work on some of those models, and they're less than "quite easy", especially when multiple pathogens are pulled into the equation, or you start working on multiple scales.
Dec 30	answered	What is the most difficult feature to explain evolutionarily?
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Dec 21	accepted	Is there an equivalent to “Fields Virology” for Bacteria?
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Dec 20	answered	How is duration of efficacy estimated for vaccines?