Bryan Lewis
Graduate Student, NDSSL Program/department: GBCB (Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology)Professional Preparation
- California Department of Health Services, Tuberculosis Control Branch, Surveillance and Epidemiology Section, 2001-2003
- University of California Berkeley, Public Health, MPH, 2001
- Carnegie-Mellon University, Computational Biology, BS, 1997
Research Interests
Public Health, Epidemiology, and Epidemiologic modeling as well as Social network construction, graph measures, and dynamic networks.Bryan is currently working on the following projects with his advisors Dr. Chris Barrett and Dr. Stephen Eubank:
- MIDAS
- CDC DSIDE
- DTRA - dIDACtic
- in silico surveillance - providing synthetic surveillance data for testing epidemic detection algorithms
- Epidemic distributions - how graph topology shapes the probability and size of epidemics
- Dissecting Disease Dynamics - investigation of local effects of network topology and an individuals risk of infection
Selected Publications
- K. Atkins, C.L. Barrett, R. Beckman, K. Bisset, J. Chen, S. Eubank, A. Feng, X. Feng, S. Harris, B. Lewis, AVS Kumar, M. Marathe, A. Marathe, H. Mortveit, and P. Stretz. An Interaction Based Composable Architecture for Building Scalable Models of Large Social, Biological, Information and Technical Systems. CT Watch, 4, 2008:46-53.
- M. E Halloran, N. M. Ferguson, S. Eubank, I. M. Longini Jr., D.A.T. Cummings, B. Lewis, S. Xu, C. Fraser, A. Vullikanti, T. C. Germann, D. Wagener, R. Beckman, K. Kadau, C. Barrett, C. A. Macken, D. S. Burke, and P. Cooley. Modeling targeted layered containment of an influenza pandemic in the United States. In PNAS, March 10, 2008.
- J.N. Eisenberg, B.L. Lewis, T.C. Porco, A.H. Hubbard, and J.M. Colford Jr. Bias due to secondary transmission in estimation of attributable risk from intervention trials. 2003. Jul;14(4):442-50 (PMID:12843770)
- R. Granich, P. Oh, B. Lewis, T.C. Porc, and J. Flood. Multi-drug Resistance Among Persons with Tuberculosis in California, 1994-2002. JAMA 2005 Jun 8;293(22):2732-9. (PMID:15941802)
- B. Lewis, R. Granich, J. Courval, J.S. Kammerer, L. Rosenblum, B.S. McNabb, and Flood J. Molecular Epidemiology of multi-drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the United States, 1996-2000. (in preparation)