I am a Research Assistant Professor in the Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Massachusetts School of Public Health and Health Sciences in Amherst, MA. My primary research interests are in developing models for complex and dynamic disease systems, developing statistical methods that can draw accurate inferences from disease surveillance data, and optimizing design and analysis strategies for cluster-randomized studies. As a teacher and a collaborator, I focus on communicating statistical results and concepts clearly and intuitively. I also spend a lot of time thinking about what makes for effective data visualization.

Visit my other academic websites at Google Scholar and @reichlab on Twitter.

From the department of biostat miscellany: check out this TV show from 1951 in which Lowell Reed (former chair of Johns Hopkins Biostatistics) discusses and demonstrates the Reed-Frost model of infectious diseases.

I graduated in 2001 from Carleton College with a B.A. in English. Before enrolling in the Biostatistics Ph.D. program at Johns Hopkins, I worked for Harper's Magazine in New York City, San Francisco's City Carshare and the Framingham Heart Study.