I am an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics in the Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Massachusetts School of Public Health and Health Sciences in Amherst, MA. Motivated by global health problems, my research unites principles of statistics with the practice of epidemiology. Active areas of research include developing time series and survival models for the spread of infectious disease, developing statistical methods for the analysis of disease surveillance data, and optimizing design and analysis strategies for cluster-randomized studies.
I graduated in 2001 from Carleton College with a B.A. in English. Before enrolling in the Biostatistics Ph.D. program at Johns Hopkins, I worked for Harper's Magazine in New York City, San Francisco's City Carshare, and the Framingham Heart Study.