In this episode we talk to Dr. Bryan Lewis about the challenges associated with communicating about epidemic models and analytics with policymakers and public health departments.  We also discuss how the team has coordinated over the past year for keeping the weekly delivery pipeline up to date and running, while maintaining work-life balance (case in point, Bryan's German Shepard puppy who makes a special appearance!). 

Bryan Lewis is a research associate professor in the NSSAC division, Biocomplexity Institute, University of Virginia. His research interests include public health and epidemiology, epidemic modeling, social network construction, and graph measures and dynamic networks. As a computational epidemiologist, Lewis acts as a liaison between the computer scientists and mathematicians designing and building simulation software and decision makers who want answers to pressing public policy questions. Full bio at https://biocomplexity.virginia.edu/person/bryan-lewis