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    Ayesha S.

    Mahmud

    Harvard University
    26 Oxford Street, 4th Floor Phone: (202) 230-3600
    Cambridge, MA 02138 Email: [email protected]

    Current Position
    Rockefeller Foundation Planetary Health Postdoctoral Fellow September 2017 - Present
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
    Harvard University Center for the Environment

    Education
    Ph.D. Demography and Social Policy, Princeton University September 2017
    Advisors: C. Jessica Metcalf and Bryan T. Grenfell
    Dissertation: A map for all seasons: Tracking transmission dynamics and mortality of
    childhood infections through the year

    B.A. Economics and Physics, Carleton College June 2009


    Magna Cum Laude, Distinction in major and thesis (Economics and Physics)

    Peer-reviewed publications
    Baker, R.*, Mahmud, A.*, and Metcalf , C. J. E. (2018) "Dynamic response of airborne infections
    to climate change: predictions for varicella". Climatic Change. (* Equal contributions). Link.

    Buckee, C. et al. (2018) "Productive disruption: opportunities and challenges for innovation
    in infectious disease surveillance." BMJ Global Health, 3 (1). Link.

    Mahmud, A., Alam, N., and Metcalf, C. J. E. (2017) "Drivers of measles mortality: the historic
    fatality burden of famine in Bangladesh". Epidemiology and Infection, 145 (16), pp 3361-3369.
    Link.

    Mahmud, A., Metcalf, C. J. E., and Grenfell, B.T. (2017) "Comparative dynamics, seasonality in
    transmission, and predictability of childhood infections in Mexico". Epidemiology and Infection,
    145 (3), pp 607-625. Link.

    Carton, S.*, Helsby, J.*, Joseph, K.*, Mahmud, A.*, Park, Y.*, Walsh, J., Cody, C., Patterson,
    E., Haynes, L., and Ghani, R. (2016) "Identifying Police Officers at Risk of Adverse Events."
    Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD
    ’16. (* Equal contributions) Link.
    Ayesha S. Mahmud 2

    Mahmud, A. (2016) "Behavioral or Biological: Taking a Closer Look at the Relationship be-
    tween HIV and Fertility." Applied Demography and Public Health in the 21st Century. Springer
    International Publishing, pp. 361-380. Link.

    Caudron, Q., Mahmud, A., Metcalf, C. J. E., Gottfredsson, M., Viboud, C., Cliff, A. D., and
    Grenfell, B. T. (2015). "Predictability in a Highly Stochastic System: Final Size of Measles
    Epidemics in Small Populations." Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 12(102), 20141125. Link.

    Works in progress
    "The time-series SIR model and the age-structured dynamics of measles" (with C. Jessica
    Metcalf and Bryan Grenfell). In Prep.

    "A review of the health consequences of climate variability and change in Bangladesh: syn-
    thesizing the evidence, identifying the gaps and understanding the challenges" (with Mo-
    hammed Mofizur Rahman, Sate Ahmed, Mahin Al Nahian, Ali Ahmed, Qamrun Nahar, and
    Peter Kim Streatfield). Submitted.

    Fellowships and awards


    Rockefeller Foundation Planetary Health Fellowship, Harvard University, 2017-2019.

    Fellowship of Woodrow Wilson Scholars, Princeton University, 2016-2017.

    Health Grand Challenge Graduate Research Funding, Center for Health and Wellbeing, Prince-
    ton University, 2016.

    Data Science for Social Good Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2015.

    Scholarship, 6th Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases, Univer-
    sity of Washington, 2014.

    Summer grant for developing the syllabus for undergraduate courses on social entrepreneur-
    ship and global health challenges, Kellar Center, Princeton University, 2013 and 2014

    Employee Recognition Award, NORC at the University of Chicago, 2009.

    Starr International Scholar, Carleton College, 2005 - 2009.

    Dean’s list, Carleton College, 2006 (awarded to top 10 percent of the class).

    Nominated for Sigma Xi (honor society for scientists), 2009

    Professional experience
    World Bank, Washington, D.C. June 2016 - June 2017
    Ayesha S. Mahmud 3

    Short-term consultant with the Development Data Group. Improved the World Bank’s
    data processing pipeline for producing population estimates and projections.

    Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship, Chicago, IL June - August 2015

    One of 42 fellows chosen from about 800 applicants. Partnered with police departments
    to predict which officers are at risk of having an adverse interaction with the public, using
    machine learning models.

    National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA July 2011 - August 2012

    Research assistant for Jonathan Gruber (Dept. of Economics, MIT). Analyzed Medicare
    Part D data to examine health insurance plan choice among the elderly Medicare popula-
    tion.

    NORC at the University of Chicago, Bethesda, MD July 2009 - June 2011

    Research analyst for projects in the Health Care Research, Public Health, Economics, and
    International Projects departments.

    Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX June - August 2008

    Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD June - August 2007

    Teaching experience
    Instructor, Introduction to Demographic Methods Summer 2014
    Office of Population Research, Princeton University
    Summer "boot-camp" for incoming Ph.D. students

    Teaching assistant, Epidemiology Spring 2014


    Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
    Instructor: Joseph Amon, Princeton University

    Teaching assistant, Ventures to Address Global Health Challenges Fall 2013


    Woodrow Wilson School and Dept. of Engineering, Princeton University
    Instructor: John Danner, University of California - Berkeley

    Tutor, grader and lab assistant for multiple courses 2006-2009


    Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Carleton College

    Talks and conference presentations


    "Drivers of seasonal disease dynamics" UTokyo-Princeton Infectious Disease Modeling Sym-
    posium, Tokyo, Japan, July 2017. Invited talk.

    "Dynamic response of airborne infections to climate change: predictions for varicella." Plane-
    tary Health / GeoHealth Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, April 2017.
    Ayesha S. Mahmud 4

    "Comparative Dynamics, Seasonality in Transmission, and Predictability of Childhood Infec-


    tions in Mexico." Population Association of America conference, Chicago, IL, April 2017.

    "Drivers of infectious disease dynamics: Childhood infections in Mexico." 5th Annual Institute
    for Disease Modeling Symposium, Bellevue, WA, April 2017. Invited talk.

    "Drivers of seasonal transmission of childhood infections." Center for Communicable Disease


    Dynamics Seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, December, 2016. Invited talk.

    "Comparative dynamics, seasonality in transmission, and predictability of childhood infec-


    tions in Mexico." Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease meeting, Cornell, NY, June
    2016.

    "Identifying Police Officers at Risk of Adverse Events." Population Association of America


    conference, Washington, DC, April 2016.

    "HIV and Fertility in sub-Saharan Africa." Population Association of America conference, San
    Diego, CA, May 2015.

    "Stratospheric Photochemistry on Neptune: Constraints from Spitzer Observations." Amer-


    ican Astronomical Society Division of Planetary Sciences conference, Cornell, NY, October
    2008.

    Additional training and skills


    Bayesian Population Projections, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, 2016

    6th Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases, University of Wash-
    ington, 2014

    Web Scraping and Text Processing with Python, Princeton University, 2014

    Advanced Statistical Programming Camp, Princeton University, 2013

    Computer Programming: R, Stata, Python, Fortran, Mathematica.

    Languages: Fluent in English and Bengali; Beginner French.

    References
    Prof. Bryan T. Grenfell Prof. C. Jessica Metcalf
    Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
    Office of Population Research Office of Population Research
    Princeton University Princeton University
    [email protected] [email protected]
    Ayesha S. Mahmud 5

    Joseph T. Walsh Prof. Caroline Buckee


    Senior Data Scientist Dept. of Epidemiology
    Center for Data Science and Public Policy Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics
    University of Chicago Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
    [email protected] [email protected]

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