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Reflections on COVID and epidemiology research: short-term questions and long-term challenges

Dr. Eili Klein is an associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Upon finishing his Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Princeton University, Dr. Klein joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2012. He is also a senior fellow at the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy in Washington, D.C. His research focuses on the role of individuals in the spread of infectious diseases, an area that sits at the nexus of economics and epidemiology. The primary disease focus of Dr. Klein’s research is antimicrobial resistance and the spread of disease within the hospital. He is actively involved in research efforts supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as well as Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

Justin Crow is the Director of Division of Social Epidemiology, Office of Health Equity at the Virginia Department of Health, where his role is to provide strategic and operational leadership of research, analysis and presentation, to ensure methodological and data quality, and to collaborate with stakeholders to identify needs. Recently, he started in his new role as Foresight & Analytics Coordinator at the Virginia Department of Health, Office of Emergency Preparedness. His task involves better connecting forecasting, early warning systems, and modeling to policy decisions, program design, and preparedness planning - all to improve the health and well-being of Virginians. He has a Masters in Public Administration from Virginia Commonwealth University and a BLS in Political Science from University of Mary Washington. He is also a certified Superforecaster with the Good Judgment Project, providing probabilistic forecasts of political and economic events for a diverse group of clients, public and private.

Dr. Li Xiong is a Professor of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics at Emory University. She held a Winship Distinguished Research Professorship from 2015-2018. She has a Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology, an MS from Johns Hopkins University, and a BS from the University of Science and Technology of China. She and her research lab conduct research on algorithms and methods at the intersection of data management, machine learning, and data privacy and security, with a recent focus on privacy-preserving and robust machine learning. Her research is supported by federal agencies including NSF, NIH, AFOSR, PCORI, and industry awards including Google, IBM, Cisco, AT&T, and Woodrow Wilson Foundation. She is an IEEE fellow and an ACM distinguished member.

24 May 2022