Fourth Meeting of the DS-I Africa Consortium
16 - 22 November 2024
The Ravenala Attitude Hotel, Mauritius

Dr Meagan Fitzpatrick - Participant

Role of Data Streams In Informing Infection Dynamics in Africa (Co-PI)

Dr. Fitzpatrick is an infectious disease transmission modeler. She applies these models to assess infectious disease control strategies, with particular focus on evaluating the cost-effectiveness of intervention. Her research combines methods from economics and decision sciences with these epidemiological models, to provide policy recommendations and support evidence-based decision-making. Her research priorities include evaluation of vaccines and therapeutics against RSV, rotavirus, and pertussis, as well as strategies to reduce maternal and infant mortality in low-income settings. Dr. Fitzpatrick also supported the response to the SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 pandemic. Her work projected the impact of unmitigated transmission on healthcare systems, highlighted the importance of preventing presymptomatic infectious spread, estimated vaccine impact, and evaluated strategies to make K-12 educational environments safer. Additional pathogens of interest have included rabies, influenza, HIV, Zika, and Ebola. Dr. Fitzpatrick joined the faculty of the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (CVD) in 2017, and is an affiliate of the Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis (CIDMA) at the Yale School of Public Health. She received her PhD in the Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases from Yale University, and an undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Notre Dame.