As a fifth-year student in the Ph.D. program in Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins, I work primarily on methods related to infectious disease. My advisor is Ron Brookmeyer. Currently, we are developing methods for estimating incubation periods of disease in real-time. You can find more detail about projects old and new on my research page.

Check out this TV show from 1951 in which Lowell Reed (former chair of Hopkins Biostatistics) discusses and demonstrates the Reed-Frost model of infectious diseases.

I grew up in rural western Massachusetts and attended Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Since graduating in 2001 with a B.A. in English, I have worked for Harper's Magazine in New York City, San Francisco's City Carshare, the Framingham Heart Study and the Boston University School of Public Health.

My better (and certainly more newsworthy) half, Johanna, spends her days fighting for consumer-friendly policies at her job for Maryland Public Interest Research Group.