Amanda Perofsky is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health and Health Sciences at Bouvé College, with joint appointments in the Network Science Institute, Roux Institute, and Institute for Experiential AI. Amanda is a computational biologist whose research focuses on the ecological, evolutionary, and behavioral drivers of infectious disease dynamics, with aims to improve disease surveillance and better understand and predict future outbreaks. Specifically, she combines statistical, mathematical, and computational approaches to investigate respiratory virus transmission patterns and epidemiology, with a focus on influenza, SARS-CoV-2, and RSV. She also produces operational forecasts and scenario projections of respiratory virus outbreaks.

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