Chris Hoover
Senior Program Manager at Engineering Biology Research Consortium
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Hoover is a senior program manager and public health strategist with a decade of experience translating infectious disease modeling and environmental health science into actionable policy across federal, state, and local governments. Trained as an epidemiological modeler (SEIR, agent-based) and skilled in advanced data science (R, C++, causal inference, geospatial/time-series analysis), he has briefed cabinet-level officials and led interagency biosecurity and biotechnology initiatives at the White House. Chris built and directed research and evaluation teams for Santa Clara County, shaping COVID-19 recovery investments with an implementation-first approach that emphasizes measurable impact and equitable outcomes. He blends technical rigor—Bayesian meta-analysis, TMLE, SuperLearner—with pragmatic partnership building across public, private, and academic sectors. Based in Berkeley, he brings rare hands-on lab and field experience (avian virus surveillance, GIS instruction) to policy design, making complex scientific insights operational.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Environmental Health Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Environmental Health Sciences at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science (BS) Environmental Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Environmental Science at Emory UniversityMaster of Public Health (MPH) Environmental Health, Master of Public Health (MPH) Environmental Health at Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
forecasts9
r-package8
rstan7
stan6
bayesian-data-analysis6
r5
bayesian-inference5
mcmc5
exports4
bayesian-statistics4
static-data3
visualization2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cmhoove14/AgroSchisto
Nov 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 234 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 11 months
cmhoove14/LEMMAABMv4
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
Contributions:270 pushes, 2 branches, 5 comments in 1 month
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