Our Story
In March 2020, the Colorado COVID-19 Modeling Group was established to assist Colorado state and local officials in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, the group received funding from the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) to build modeling tools and data visualizations for the Rocky Mountain West, resulting in the creation of the Rocky Mountain COVID Data project. Over the past year, we have interviewed public health officials across the Rocky Mountain West to assess needs and build out these resources to serve those needs. We describe this work in a pre-print here. We continue to work to support public health leaders in the region in reducing the impacts of COVID-19.
Meet the Team
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Elizabeth Carlton, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental & Occupational Health, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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Brittney Contreras, BS
Professional Research Assistant, Department of Environmental & Occupational Health, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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Bailey Fosdick, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics & Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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Andrew Hill, MS
Research Software Engineer, Department of Biostatistics & Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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Irina Kasarskis, MPH
DrPH Student, Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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Talia Quandelacy, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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Emma Wu, MS
Senior Professional Research Assistant, Department of Environmental & Occupational Health, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Scientific Advisors
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Jude Bayham, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health
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David Bortz, PhD
Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder
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Jon Samet, MD, MS
Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Alumni
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Alex Fout, PhD
Data Scientist, Google
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Aki Suzuki, BA
MPH Student, Department of Environmental & Occupational Health, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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Kaitie Whitney, BS
MPH Student, Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
This work was supported in part by funding from the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE). This work was supported by Cooperative Agreement number NU38OT000297 from The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and CSTE and does not necessarily represent the views of CDC and CSTE.