I'm an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Epidemiology and Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. My research is focused on using spatial and social network analyisis and dynamic modeling to prevent infectious diseases, with a focus on tuberculosis and diarrheal disease.

To find out more about specific research projects and publications, check out my CV.

Tutorials & Blog

From time to time, I also post tutorials and other useful stuff on my blog:

• 01 May 2018 » Some light summer reading in spatial epidemiology
• 06 Jun 2016 » Bringing it all together with GitLab CI
• 03 Jun 2016 » It's not reproducible if it only runs on your laptop.
• 02 Jun 2016 » Knotes on Knitr
• 01 Jun 2016 » Makefiles for fun and profit
• 31 May 2016 » Your R script is a program!
• 31 May 2016 » Reproducibility starts at home
• 08 Jan 2016 » Understanding the impact of socioeconomic status on Ebola transmission
• 11 Aug 2015 » Understanding the etiology of spatial clusters of drug-resistant TB: Clustered social risks, localized transmission, or both?
• 19 Jun 2015 » Autogenerating research reports using Make, Knitr and Latex
• 16 Apr 2015 » Modeling the missing community-wide effects from the Thibela TB trial
• 16 Mar 2015 » Influenza A infection history and antibody response
• 03 Mar 2015 » Social networks and diarrheal disease
• 02 Mar 2015 » Voronoi intensity mapping with R and d3: Part 2
• 26 Feb 2015 » Voronoi intensity mapping with R and d3: Part 1
• 12 Feb 2015 » SIR Model in D3
• 08 Jul 2014 » hotspotr: hotspot mapping in R
• 02 Jul 2014 » Auto-generating blog posts in R Markdown with jekyll and knitr