Wan Yang
Associate Research Scientist
Environmental Health Sciences
Columbia University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Wan Yang is trained as an environmental engineer and infectious disease modeler, with further expertise in statistics, epidemiology, and computer science. Broadly, Dr. Yang is interested in understanding how infectious diseases spread through the population, as well as methods to model and predict these epidemics. Her recent work applies mathematical modeling and Bayesian inference methods to study the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases such as influenza, Ebola, and measles
Research Interest
Bayesian Methods, Epidemics, Infectious Disease
Publications
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Yang W, Lipsitch M, Shaman J (2015) Inference of seasonal and pandemic influenza transmission dynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112: 2723-2728
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Nguyen J, Yang W, Ito K, Matte T, Shaman J, Kinney P (2016). Seasonal influenza infections and cardiovascular disease mortality. JAMA Cardiology. 1: 274-281.
