GH Presentation: Digital Disease Data and Mathematical Modeling for Outbreak Surveillance

Starts:
1:00 pm on Thursday, April 5, 2018
Ends:
2:00 pm on Thursday, April 5, 2018
Location:
CT-305
Join the Department of Global Health as we welcome Maimuna Majumder. Maia will be giving a job talk titled: "Digital Disease Data and Mathematical Modeling for Outbreak Surveillance". Maimuna (Maia) Majumder is an Engineering Systems PhD candidate at MIT and graduate research fellow at HealthMap Computational Epidemiology Group . Before coming to MIT, she earned a Bachelors of Science in Engineering Science and a Masters of Public Health in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Tufts University. Her research interests involve probabilistic modeling, data mining, and “systems epidemiology” in the context of public health. She also enjoys exploring novel techniques for data procurement, writing about data for the general public, and creating meaningful data visualizations.