Andreas Handel

Epidemiology & Biostatistics,

Associate Department Head
Professor
Program Director of Data Analysis and Modeling

Epidemiology & Biostatistics,

I am Professor and Associate Department Head in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the College of Public Health at the University of Georgia. I have adjunct appointments in UGA’s School of Ecology and Department of Infectious Diseases in the College of Veterinary Medicine, as well as the Department of Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. I am also a Member of UGA’s Institute of Bioinformatics and Faculty of Infectious Diseases.

I work on data analytics and modeling of infectious diseases, mainly influenza, tuberculosis and norovirus. Lately, I have also worked a lot on COVID-19. I uses mathematical models, computational simulations and statistical analysis to understand the dynamics of pathogens on different spatial and temporal scales. I work both on the within-host level (the immunology, virology, microbiology scale) and the population level (the epidemiology, ecology, evolution scale). The ultimate goal of my work is to help design better intervention and control strategies against infectious diseases, both for individual patients and on the population level.