Expertise
Infectious Diseases, Mathematical Epidemiology
Bio
Gerardo Chowell and his research team employ mathematical models to investigate the role of environmental characteristics on the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in various settings. The team studies the extent to which changes in the environment could drive the course of the pandemic the next few months. Chowell’s research team in the School of Public Health is producing daily incidence forecasts of the pandemic’s series of deaths and global trajectory. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies at the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health.