Rachel Mercaldo

PhD Student

Research Interests:

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

  • Host-pathogen coadaptation, phylogeographic structuring, and strain competition.
  • Drivers of diagnostic delays

Vaccine efficacy trial design and analysis

Spatial analysis

  • Mapping, clustering analysis with point-process, continuous, or lattice data
  • Conditional/simultaneous autoregression, space-time autoregression
  • Bayesian spatial hierarchical generalized linear models
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