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.