Public Health

• Conduct research relevant to the R01 “Phylogenetics, causal inference, and model diagnostics for longitudinal studies of infectious disease transmission and control” under PI Kenah
• Develop methods for adapting and fitting survival-analysis models to infectious disease transmission data and other outbreak and epidemic data
• Work with household- or population-level data, including genetic sequences
• Apply causal inference, model diagnostics, estimation of secondary attack risks or infectiousness profiles, estimation of reproduction numbers, and population-level infection tracking
• Devote approximately 80% of time to theoretical derivations, simulation studies, open-source software implementation, manuscript preparation, and presentations
• Analyze, interpret, and present data
• Disseminate results through papers and presentations
• Implement methods for inclusion in the TranStat R package or other open-source software
• Devote approximately 20% of time to training and mentorship
• Gain grant-writing experience
• Learn principles of responsible conduct of research
• Informally mentor a Graduate Research Associate under the supervision of the PI

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