Amanda Perofsky
Research Assistant Professor at Northeastern University
Portland, Maine, United States
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Top SchoolAmanda Perofsky is an infectious disease epidemiologist and research assistant professor with nine years of experience studying the ecological, evolutionary, and behavioral drivers of respiratory virus epidemics. Based at Northeastern University and the Network Science Institute, she combines statistical, mathematical, and computational methods to analyze diverse data streams and produce operational forecasts for influenza, SARS-CoV-2, and RSV. Her work spans field ecology to large-scale public health surveillance, including leadership on the Seattle Flu Study and international collaborations at the Fogarty International Center. She uniquely blends evolutionary perspectives from her PhD in Ecology, Evolution & Behavior with practical epidemiological modeling to illuminate how behavior and host networks shape transmission. Based in Portland, Maine, she translates complex data into actionable outbreak projections for researchers and public health decision-makers.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Ecology Evolution & Behavior, PhD Ecology Evolution & Behavior at The University of Texas at AustinUniversity of Georgia
Malagasy, French, English
Github Skills (1)
modeling8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aperofsky/FluSight-forecast-hub
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:106 pushes in 1 year 5 months
aperofsky/Flusight-forecast-data
Oct 2022 - Mar 2024
Contributions:61 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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