Matthew Mietchen
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Mietchen is a postdoctoral research associate at UNC-Chapel Hill with eight years of experience applying mathematical and computational models to infectious disease dynamics and public health decision-making. He combines hands-on epidemiologic practice from years at the Utah Department of Health with advanced interdisciplinary research developed during his PhD at Washington State University, enabling him to translate surveillance data into actionable insights. At the Carolina Population Center he collaborates with public health partners and co-investigators to inform intervention strategies and improve disease burden estimation. Matthew’s background spans lab-based methods, field surveillance, grant management, and modeling, giving him a rare blend of wet‑lab, operational, and quantitative skills that strengthen translational epidemiology.
8 years of coding experience
The University of UtahDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, MULTI/INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, MULTI/INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES at Washington State UniversityB.S., Biology, B.S., Biology at Westminster College
English, french (minimal)Github contributions (4)
epimodels/Metapopulation_MRSA
Sep 2019 - Jul 2022
Contributions:4 pushes in 2 years 10 months
hiteshbahar/NetworkScience_Project
Mar 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:11 pushes in 1 month
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