Melanie Hunter Chitwood

Biography

Publications

• Role of casual contact in drug-resistant tuberculosis transmission: a molecular epidemiology study.

  Gandhi NR, Naidoo K, Lutchminarain K, Omar SV, Yoshii H, Willis F, Boodhram R, Gwala T, Campbell A, Coe MM, Evans AN, Tang L, Chitwood MH, Hlathi SR, Mbatha PN, Joseph L, Van Der Meulen H, Mlisana K, Jenness SM, Lurie MN, Kreiswirth BN, Warren JL, Nelson KN, Auld SC, Brust JCM, Cohen T, Mathema B, Shah NS. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2026 07 01

  PMID: 42089682

• National- and State-level SARS-CoV-2 Immunity Trends From January 2020 to December 2023: a Mathematical Modeling Analysis.

  Klaassen F, Swartwood NA, Chitwood MH, Lopes R, Haraguchi M, Salomon JA, Cohen T, Menzies NA. J Infect Dis 2026 Apr 29

  PMID: 41129530

• Estimated Impacts of Rotavirus Vaccine Recommendation Changes in the U.S.

  Asare EO, Kwon J, Chitwood MH, Perniciaro S, Gonsalves GS, Pitzer VE. medRxiv 2026 Apr 28

  PMID: 42094157

• The global phylogeography of rapidly expanding multidrug resistant Ural lineage 4.2 Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

  Chitwood MH, Rancu I, Song Y, Potter BI, Chew YT, Ciobanu N, Crudu V, Colijn C, Cohen T, Sobkowiak B. Nat Commun 2026 Mar 31

  PMID: 41917024

• e3SIM: Epidemiological-ecological-evolutionary simulation framework for genomic epidemiology.

  Xu P, Liang S, Hahn A, Zhao V, Lo WT', Haller BC, Sobkowiak B, Chitwood MH, Colijn C, Cohen T, Rhee KY, Messer PW, Wells MT, Clark AG, Kim J. Methods Ecol Evol 2026

  PMID: 41953710