Consortium for Modeling and Analysis of Treatments and Interventions

Sara has been conducting research at Los Alamos National Laboratory for the past ten years. She has worked on developing, integrating, and analyzing mathematical and computational models for the spread of infectious diseases including smallpox, anthrax, malaria, HIV, and influenza on a pandemic scale. She also works on modeling the potential effects of mass casualties on the Healthcare and Public Health Sector including resource allocation and dependencies on other infrastructure.

In addition, she studies uncertainty quantification, social networks, mixing patterns, and the role of social behavior on disease dynamics using social media and computational models. Currently, Sara is the technical lead for the National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC)’s pandemic influenza project and the principal investigator for an NIH grant for the Modeling of Infectious Disease Agent Study program.