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Ben Althouse is a Research Scientist at the Institute for Disease Modeling and an Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. He holds a PhD in Epidemiology and a Master of Science in Biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. He also possesses Bachelor of Science degrees in Mathematics and Biochemistry from the University of Washington. His research has focused on mathematical modeling of sylvatic dengue virus transmission in nonhuman primates in Senegal, examining the role of antimicrobial use in the evolution of drug resistance, and utilizing Twitter as a modeling system for co-infection dynamics. Additionally, he employs novel data sources such as Google searches, Twitter, and Wikipedia article views for population-level surveillance of infectious and chronic diseases.
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