In this edition of FOCUS In Sound, we meet a Burroughs Wellcome Fund grantee who is innovating in methods of detecting infectious disease.

Dr. Amy Wesolowski is an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. She holds a BA from College of the Atlantic, and earned her PhD from Carnegie Mellon in 2014.

She completed her postdoc at the TH Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University.

Amy received a 2016 Career Awards at the Scientific Interface, or CASI, grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund to further her work on the impact of human travel on infectious disease dynamics. She has studied those elements associated with malaria, dengue fever, rubella, measles, Ebola, and most recently, COVID-19. She uses data generated from mobile phone calling records to quantify travel patterns.