Sinead E. Morris

Public Health Analytics and Modeling Fellow

Influenza Division, CDC

Biography

I'm a Public Health Analytics and Modeling 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
MA in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 2015

Princeton University
Msci in Mathematics, 2013

University of Glasgow

Skills

Math modeling

Data analysis

Software design

Experience

Public Health Analytics and Modeling Fellow

Influenza Division, CDC

Aug 2021 – Present Atlanta, GA

Seasonal influenza transmission dynamics
Impacts of vaccines and pharmaceutical interventions

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

CM Saad-Roy, SE Morris, RE Baker, J Farrar, AL Graham, SA Levin, CE Wagner, CJE Metcalf, BT Grenfell (2022). Medium-term scenarios of COVID-19 as a function of immune uncertainties and chronic disease (submitted). submitted.

SE Morris, LA Grohskopf, J Ferdinands, C Reed, M Biggerstaff (2022). Evaluating the potential impact of higher-dose and adjuvanted seasonal influenza vaccines in adults age 65 and older on influenza burden in the United States (submitted). submitted.

SE Morris, R Strehlau, S Shiau, EJ Abrams, CT Tiemessen, L Kuhn, AJ Yates (2022). Healthy dynamics of CD4 T cells may drive HIV resurgence in perinatally-infected infants on antiretroviral therapy. PLoS Pathogens.

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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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