Affiliates

Alyssa Bilinski is the Peterson Family Assistant Professor of Health Policy in the Brown University Departments of Health Services, Policy & Practice and Biostatistics. Her research lies at the intersection of policy evaluation and modeling, developing novel methods to assess real-world program impact and using resulting estimates to inform future projections. She will discuss pitfalls of popular “difference-in-differences” analyses with infectious disease outcomes and propose alternatives informed by transmission dynamic theory. Outside of work, she enjoys powerlifting and all-day baking projects.  

Dr. Cohen is an infectious disease epidemiologist whose primary research focus is tuberculosis. He is particularly interested in understanding how drug-resistance and medical comorbidities such as HIV frustrate current efforts to control tuberculosis epidemics, with a goal of developing more effective approaches to limit the morbidity caused by this pathogen.