Michael E. DeWitt

Applied statistician and infectious disease epidemiologist at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

I study the detection, surveillance, and dynamics of new and emerging infectious diseases using mathematical and statistical models to improve public health decision-making.

My work focuses on the geospatial components of infectious diseases — the role of climate change, mobility patterns, contact structure evolution, and pathogen evolution — as well as delay distributions, infection ascertainment, and rapid modeling to inform public health response.