Title: Faculty Experts on 2014 Ebola Crisis: Disease Biology
Georgetown faculty can comment on infectious disease modeling, disease epidemiology and evolution.
To arrange interviews with these experts, please contact theOffice of Communications.
Faculty experts include:
Shweta Bansal
Shweta Bansal, is an assistant professor of biology and a faculty fellow of the Research and Policy in Infectious Disease Dynamics (RAPIDD) Program at theNational Institutes for Health’sFogarty International Center. Sheis a mathematical biologist, and her research bringsmathematical models to challenges in infectious disease ecology,epidemiology and evolution. She focuses on the complex links betweenhost population behavior and pathogen ecology, characterized throughnetwork models and studies how this interaction shapespopulation-level infectious disease dynamics and evolutionarypotential. Bansal also is keen to use this approach to provide aprincipled and quantitative method to analyze and inform public andanimal health policy, and works on systems ranging from influenza inhumans to foot and mouth disease in cattle. In fall 2014, Bansal was featured in a Georgetown-hosted discussion about the Ebola crisis in West Africa and global infectious disease outbreaks around the world. More.
Areas of Expertise: infectious disease modeling, disease epidemiology and evolution