Erin Zwick, PhD

Erin Zwick, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow

Northwestern University

Biography

Erin Zwick is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Global Health in the Department of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University. Her research interests include infectious disease epidemiology, transmission modeling, and agent-based simulation. She is currently leading a project to optimize malaria interventions in high burden settings using cost-effectiveness modeling methods and agent-based simulation.

Previous projects include building an agent-based simulation of a tuberculosis (TB) epidemic to elucidate population-level effects of complex, individual-level transmission dynamics, application of novel evolutionary modeling methods to infer variation in TB transmission, and statistical analysis of medical records to determine historical changes in length of TB treatment.

Interests

  • Infectious disease modeling
  • Infectious disease epidemiology
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis
  • Agent-based simulation

Education

  • PhD in Epidemiology, 2020

    University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • BS in Mathematics and Philosophy, 2014

    The Ohio State University

Skills

Computing

C++, python, R, Java

Disease modeling

Agent-based simulation, compartmental models

Analysis

Biostatistics, cost-effectiveness

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Postdoctoral Fellow

Northwestern University

Aug 2020 – Present Chicago, IL
Using agent-based modeling approaches to optimize malaria intervention strategy.
 
 
 
 
 

Graduate Researcher

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Sep 2015 – Jul 2020 Madison, WI
Quantified tuberculosis epidemics using agent-based simulation, phylodynamic, and biostatic modeling approaches.
 
 
 
 
 

Technical Services

Epic Systems

Sep 2014 – Aug 2015 Verona, WI
Supported HIM & Identity applications for four large hospital systems.