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Caitlin Rivers is an epidemiologist specializing in epidemic preparedness and infectious disease modeling. Her work on outbreak science and disease forecasting is tangentially relevant to AI safety through pandemic preparedness, biosecurity, and the use of computational modeling for public health decision-making.
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Wikipedia biography of Caitlin Rivers, a Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security specializing in epidemic preparedness and computational epidemiology. She advocates for integrating infectious disease modeling into public health decision-making through an interdisciplinary field called 'outbreak science.' Her work includes COVID-19 response, Ebola modeling, and proposals for a National Infectious Disease Forecasting Center.
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- •Senior Scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, focusing on epidemic preparedness and infectious disease forecasting.
- •Developed computational epidemiology models for H7N9, MERS-CoV, and Ebola using non-traditional data sources like social media.
- •Advocates for 'outbreak science' — integrating modeling approaches into public health decision-making.
- •Proposed creation of a National Infectious Disease Forecasting Center analogous to weather forecasting agencies.
- •Worked as civilian epidemiologist for the U.S. Army on acute respiratory disease surveillance.
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American epidemiologist
Caitlin Rivers Rivers c.  2017 Born United States Other name Caitlin Yeaton Education University of New Hampshire ( BS )
Virginia Tech ( MPH , PhD ) Occupation Epidemiologist Years active 2014-present Employer(s) Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health , Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (current)
U.S. Army
Caitlin M. Rivers is an American epidemiologist who as Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health , specializing on improving epidemic preparedness. Rivers is currently working on the American response to the COVID-19 pandemic with a focus on the incorporation of infectious disease modeling and forecasting into public health decision making. [ 1 ]
Early life and education
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In 2011, Rivers received a bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of New Hampshire , where she specialized in medical anthropology . [ 2 ] She has said that she became interested in public health after reading Tracy Kidder 's book, Mountains Beyond Mountains , which was about anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer 's work on infectious disease eradication. [ 3 ]
In 2013, Rivers received a master's degree in public health (MPH) with a concentration in infectious disease from Virginia Tech . In 2015, she received a PhD in the Genetics, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology program, where she specialized in computational epidemiology , from Virginia Tech. [ 4 ] Her thesis was on modeling emerging infectious diseases for public health support, using non-traditional, public available sources of data, such as data collected from social media and Google search terms. [ 5 ] She specifically focused on data related to outbreaks of avian influenza A (H7N9), Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV), and Ebola virus disease (EVD).
Career
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During her post-graduate studies, Rivers was a graduate research assistant at Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech (formerly known as the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute) in Blacksburg, Virginia , where she built infectious disease models of emerging infectious diseases including Influenza A virus subtype H7N9 , Middle East respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus , and the 2014-2015 Western African Ebola virus epidemic – the latter in coordination with the U.S. Department of Defense . Rivers maintained the only source of digital repository of data during the Ebola outbreak. As part of this work she developed Python tools, interfaces, and tutorials for epidemiologists. [ 3 ]
From 2013 to 2015, Rivers was a civilian epidemiologist for the United States Army . She worked at the U.S. Army Public Health Center as part of the Science, Mathematics, And Research For Transformation (SMART) Defense Scholarship Program during her s
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