Caitlin Rivers
Senior Scholar at Center for Health Security
Cockeysville, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCaitlin Rivers is an infectious disease epidemiologist and Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security who leverages a decade of experience to translate computational models into actionable outbreak science for public health decision-making. As an Assistant Professor in Environmental Health and Engineering, she combines a PhD in Computational Epidemiology with practical field experience from her prior role as a civilian Army epidemiologist, where she led the Army’s 50-year Acute Respiratory Disease Surveillance Program and directed outbreak investigations. Her work spans infectious disease modeling, surveillance design, and readiness assessments, with a focus on bridging analytic rigor and operational needs during emergencies. Trained in anthropology and public health as well as computational methods, she brings interdisciplinary insight into behavioral, biological, and data-driven aspects of outbreaks.
10 years of coding experience
Virginia TechBachelor's Degree, Anthropology, Bachelor's Degree, Anthropology at University of New Hampshire
Github Skills (3)
python7
data-repository7
drc7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cmrivers/ebola_drc
May 2018 - Dec 2019
Data for the 2018 Ebola outbreak in DRC
Contributions:14 commits, 11 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 year 6 months
drcebolaebola-outbreakoutbreak
cmrivers/ncov
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 25 days
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