Epidemiologist
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Matthew Biggerstaff, ScD, MPH, serves as team lead of the Applied Research and Modeling Team in CDC Influenza Division’s Epidemiology and Prevention Branch (EPB). Dr. Biggerstaff joined the team during its creation in 2015 and became team lead in 2022. In this role, he oversees team activities related to the following: characterizing flu season severity, disease burden, and influenza virus transmission in the population; integrating advanced analytics and mathematical modeling into flu-related public health response efforts; and improving the use and accuracy of influenza forecasting to better predict and mitigate the impact of flu on the U.S. population. Dr. Biggerstaff started his career at CDC as an ORISE fellow in the Enteric Diseases Epidemiology Branch in 2006 and joined the Influenza Division’s Surveillance and Outbreak Response Team as an Epidemiologist in 2009.
Topic: Predictive models, including strain evolution, forecasting