Welcome to the Galvani Group
Our research focuses on integrating epidemiology and evolutionary ecology or economics in order to generate predictions that could not be made by these disciplines alone. This interdisciplinary approach has widespread potential for answering evolutionary questions, explaining empirical observations and informing public health policy. Professor Galvani has applied this approach to the study of HIV, influenza, HPV, SARS and helminth parasites.
Postdoctoral Position Available
Post-doctoral positions are available at Yale Medical School in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health to develop and analyze socioeconomic models of infectious disease epidemiology.
This position will require an independent and motivated individual who has published in epidemiology, population biology and/or economics. Mathematical and/or computational modeling skills are essential.
The salary will be at least according to NIH pay scale, commensurate with experience and expertise. Funding is available for three years.
Closing date: Open until filled.
To apply please send CV, brief statement of research interests and contact information for two academic references to alison.galvani@yale.edu.
News
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August 2012Dr. Yoko Ibuka will take a position as Associate Professor at Kyoto University Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
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May 2012Dr. Alison Galvani has been awarded the 2012 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists by the New York Academy of Sciences and the Blavatnik Family Foundation.
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November 2011Jennifer Gilbert passed her qualifying exam with distinction.
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August 2011Meagan Fitzpatrick received the Lindsay Fellowship for Research in Africa to study Rabies in Tanzania.
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March 2011Dr. Yoko Ibuka has taken a position as Assistant Professor at Hitotsubashi University School of International and Public Policy and Department of Economics.
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February 2011Katherine Skene passed her qualifying exam.
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December 2010Meagan Fitzpatrick passed her qualifying exam with distinction.
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November 2010Dr. Martial Ndeffo and Dr. David Durham joined our group as Postdoctoral Associates.
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01 June 2010Dr. Kristina Talbert-Slagle and Dr. Katherine Atkins joined our group as Postdoctoral Associates. Jennifer Gilbert joined our group as a graduate student.
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May 2010Dr. Alison Galvani was awarded tenure.
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2010Dr. Eunha Shim has taken a position as Assistant Professor in Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Yonas Tekle has taken a position as Assistant Professor at Spelman College.
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01 September 2009Katherine Skene joined our group as a graduate student.
- 05–08 July 2009Dr. Galvani, Dr. Davis and Dr. Porco organize a workshop at University of KwaZulu-Natal funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
- 01 July 2009Dr. Eunha Shim was promoted to Associate Research Scientist.
- July 2009Galvani Group organizes Infectious Disease Modeling (an international workshop for students of the biological sciences, medicine and public health) at the University of KwaZulu Natal in Durban, South Africa.
- 01 June 2009Dr. Alison Galvani (PI) was funded with NIH MIDAS Grant on influenza and behavioral changes.
- 01 June 2009Jennifer Gilbert joined our group as a Research Assistant.
- 25 May 2009Sanjay Basu graduated with his MD and PhD. He will be completing his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
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25 May 2009Paula Luz graduated with her PhD. She has taken a position at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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06 May 2009Dr. Alison Galvani was promoted to Associate Professor.
- January 2009Dr. Yonas Tekle joined our group as a Postdoctoral Associate.
- August 2008Galvani Group alumnus Dr. Jan Medlock has taken a position as Assistant Professor in Mathematical Sciences at Clemson University.
- 06 October 2008Dr. Stephen Davis joined our group as an Associate Research Scientist.
- July 2008Dr. Yoko Ibuka joined our group as a Postdoctoral Associate.
- 29 Mar 2008Dr. Eunha Shim's presentation at Biomath Days (University of Ottawa, Canada) was voted as the best talk contributed by postdocs and graduate students.
- 2007Dr. Alison Galvani (PI) was funded with NIH R01 Grant on influenza vaccination.
- 2007Dr. Alison Galvani (co-PI) was funded with NIH Grant on sleeping sickness.
- 2007Dr. Braithwaite (PI) and Dr. Alison Galvani (co-PI) were funded with NIH Grant.
- 13 August 2007Sanjay Basu passed his general exam with high distinction.
- 01 June 2007Beth Kochin won the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department's William R. Belknap Prize for her senior thesis. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Biology at Emory University.
- 01 June 2007Paula Luz passed her general exam with high distinction.
- 01 June 2007Eric Poolman has taken a family-practice residency position at Ventura County Medical Center. He has since become Chief Resident.
- 01 June 2007Galvani Group alumnus Tim Reluga has taken a position as Assistant Professor in Mathematics at Penn State University.
- 18 May 2007Dave Thomas won the E.P.H. Dean's Award for best M.P.H. thesis. He has taken a position as Health Information Systems Software Development Manager with Partners in Health in Kigali, Rwanda.
- 15 March 2007The Economist discusses Galvani, Reluga, & Chapman's PNAS article on influenza vaccination.
- 07 September 2006New Scientist has a summary of Poolman & Galvani's article Evaluating candidate agents of selective pressure for cystic fibrosis.
- 14 June 2006Elbasha & Galvani's article Vaccination against multiple HPV types is number 1 of the TOP25 Hottest Articles in Mathematical Biosciences.
- 12 May 2006The MacMillan Center has chosen Prof. Galvani for a Director's Award.
- 6 April 2006Prof. Galvani has been awarded a 2006 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship. She is the youngest recipient this year.
- 1 February 2006A commentary in Heredity discusses the recent work of Novembre, Galvani, & Slatkin.
- 19 October 2005Novembre, Galvani, & Slatkin's article The geographic spread of the CCR5-Δ32 HIV-resistance allele is a highlighted article in PLoS Biology.
- 5 May 2005Prof. Galvani has received a Young Investigator's Prize from the American Society of Naturalists.
- 7 April 2005Paula Luz will be joining our group as a graduate student in the fall as a Fulbright fellow.
