Yonatan Grad, MD, PhD

Research Fellow
Harvard School of Public Health
Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Dept of Epidemiology
677 Huntington Ave
Kresge Building Rm 506
Boston, MA
USA 02115
yhgrad@gmail.com

Biographical Sketch:
2010-present -- Research Fellow, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 2011-present -- Associate Physician, Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA Research questions focus on how pathogens evolve and spread through populations, using genomics, mathematical modeling, and epidemiological tools. Specific topics include spread of antibiotic resistant gonorrhea, within-host evolution of RSV under varying immune pressure, mathematical modeling of cholera transmission, and influenza genomics. Author or coauthor of 18 publications and book chapters on infectious disease genomics, epidemiology, and mathematical modeling, and computational biology.