Lauren White
Statistician Modeler
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLauren White is a statistician-modeler and disease ecologist with 11 years of experience translating One Health science into operational public health tools and policy-relevant analyses. At the California Department of Public Health she developed state- and county-level influenza forecasting models that currently rank first in the 2024–2025 FluSight Challenge and contributed mechanistic scenario models to national hubs. Her background spans advanced modeling (individual-based, network, ODE, ML, time series), high-performance reproducible R programming, and mentoring junior analysts, backed by 35+ peer-reviewed publications and $300k+ in grant funding. Lauren pairs field and lab experience—from wildlife trapping to veterinary assistance—with policy work as an AAAS fellow at USAID, enabling practical, interdisciplinary solutions for sustained epidemic control. A PhD-trained researcher who secured substantial competitive funding as a postdoc and graduate student, she blends rigorous quantitative methods with clear science communication for decision makers and public audiences.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin CitiesBachelor of Science, Biomedical Engineering and Spanish, Bachelor of Science, Biomedical Engineering and Spanish at University of Virginia
Italian, Spanish, French, English
Github Skills (11)
ecology8
modeling8
data-wrangling6
stable6
r6
data-visualization4
visualization4
data-visualisation3
data-analysis3
data-science3
r-package3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
whit1951/Flusight-forecast-data
Oct 2022 - May 2023
Contributions:78 pushes in 7 months
whit1951/JustinianPlague
Mar 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:1 release, 10 commits, 1 push in 1 year
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