The Lakdawala Lab focuses on understanding transmission of respiratory viruses. One of their primary goals is to develop a comprehensive surveillance systems to determine pandemic potential for influenza viruses. Given our recent circumstances, they have now expanded their work to the COVID-19 virus. Their current project Public Health Interventions aGainst Human-to-Human Transmission of COVID-19 is a publicly accessible data analytics platform that combines disparate public data sources into interactive tools and visualizations. 

 

My research project with PHIGHT COVID involved adding more statistical analysis and modeling to determine the effectiveness of mask interventions and the time lag between interventions and case changes. These will help inform public health policy in the coming year and for future pandemics.

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Recently, I helped redesign the main COVID cases time series plot displayed on the PHIGHT COVID website to be more interactive and informative: 

https://phightcovid.org/Graphs.html

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