Sinead E. Morris

Prevention Effectiveness Fellow

Influenza Division, CDC

Biography

I'm a Prevention Effectiveness Fellow in the Influenza Division at CDC, working at the intersection of mathematical modeling and public health. I previously modeled within-host dynamics of influenza and HIV as a postdoc at Columbia University, NY.

Interests

Mathematical Modeling
Public Health & Epidemiology
Immunology
Cross-scale Dynamics

Education

PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 2018

Princeton University
Msci in Mathematics, 2013

University of Glasgow

Skills

Math modeling

Data analysis

Software design

Experience

Prevention Effectiveness Fellow

Influenza Division, CDC

Aug 2021 – Present Atlanta, GA

Supervised by Drs. Matthew Biggerstaff and Melissa Rolfes

Postdoc

Columbia University Medical Center

Jul 2018 – Aug 2021 New York, NY

Supervised by Prof. Andrew Yates

Projects included:

HIV dynamics in infants on antiretroviral treatment
Population dynamics of memory T cells
Modeling T cell responses to influenza infection

PhD student

Princeton University

Aug 2013 – Jun 2018 Princeton, NJ

Supervised by Prof. Bryan Grenfell

Projects included:

Within-host dynamics of measles
Spatial spread of seasonal influenza
Modeling an outbreak of dolphin morbillivirus (DMV)
Unravelling the impact of within-host immune responses on population dynamics

Recent publications

CE Wagner*, CM Saad-Roy*, SE Morris, RE Baker, MJ Mina, J Farrar, EC Holmes, OG Pybus, EJ Emanuel, AL Graham, SA Levin, CJE Metcalf, BT Grenfell (2021). Vaccine nationalism and the dynamics and control of SARS-CoV-2. Science.

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PA Szabo*, P Dogra*, JI Gray*, SB Wells*, TJ Connors, SP Weisberg, I Krupska, R Matsumoto, MML Poon, E Idzikowski, SE Morris, C Pasin, AJ Yates, A Ku, M Chait, J Davis-Porada, XV Guo, J Zhou, M Steinle, S Mackay, A Saqi, M Baldwin, PA Sims, DL Farber (2021). Longitudinal profiling of respiratory and systemic immune responses reveals myeloid cell-driven lung inflammation in severe COVID-19. Immunity.

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CM Saad-Roy, SE Morris, CJE Metcalf, MJ Mina, RE Baker, J Farrar, EC Holmes, OG Pybus, AL Graham, SA Levin, BT Grenfell, CE Wagner (2021). Epidemiological and evolutionary considerations of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine dosing regimes. Science.

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CM Saad-Roy*, CE Wagner*, RE Baker, SE Morris, J Farrar, AL Graham, SA Levin, MJ Mina, CJE Metcalf, BT Grenfell (2020). Immune life history, vaccination, and the dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 over the next 5 years. Science.

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SE Morris, L Dziobek-Garrett, R Strehlau, J Schröter, S Shiau, AJN Anelone, M Paximadis, RJ de Boer, EJ Abrams, CT Tiemessen, L Kuhn, AJ Yates (2020). Quantifying the dynamics of HIV decline in perinatally-infected neonates on antiretroviral therapy. JAIDS.

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