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Natalie Olson is a doctoral candidate in the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health at Emory University. She is a former epidemiologist at the US CDC, where she worked in international influenza surveillance and participated in the CDC Novel Coronavirus Response International Task Force and Epidemiology Task Force. She is interested in using quantitative spatial analysis and mathematical modeling within a One Health framework to better understand, predict, mitigate, and prevent the zoonotic transmission of infectious diseases.
Areas of Interest
- Diarrheal and Enteric Diseases
- Disease Ecology
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease Dynamics
- Neglected Tropical Diseases
- Safe Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
- Spatial Analysis/GIS
- Vector-borne/Zoonotic Diseases
Education
- Bachelor of Science 2017, University of California, Davis
- Master of Public Health 2019, Yale School of Public Health
Publications
- Eduardo Azziz Baumgartner, Rosalba Gonzalez, William Davis, Arlene Calvo, Natalie Olson, Lauren Grant, Morgan Hess Holtz, Vic Veguilla, Rafael Rauda, Susan Cornelia Kaydos Daniels, Nestor Sosa, Evelina I Aedo Ruíz, Julio Armero Guardado, Rachael Porter, Danilo Franco, Juan Miguel Pascale, Georgina Peacock, 2022, Lower cognitive scores among toddlers in birth cohorts with acute respiratory illnesses, fevers, and laboratory confirmed influenza, Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, 16,
- Mark G Thompson, Edward Stenehjem, Shaun Grannis, Sarah W Ball, Allison L Naleway, Toan C Ong, Malini B DeSilva, Karthik Natarajan, Catherine H Bozio, Ned Lewis, Kristin Dascomb, Brian E Dixon, Rebecca J Birch, Stephanie A Irving, Suchitra Rao, Elyse Kharbanda, Jungmi Han, Sue Reynolds, Kristin Goddard, Nancy Grisel, William F Fadel, Matthew E Levy, Jill Ferdinands, Bruce Fireman, Julie Arndorfer, Nimish R Valvi, Elizabeth A Rowley, Palak Patel, Ousseny Zerbo, Eric P Griggs, Rachael M Porter, Maria Demarco, Lenee Blanton, Andrea Steffens, Yan Zhuang, Natalie Olson, Michelle Barron, Patricia Shifflett, Stephanie J Schrag, Jennifer R Verani, Alicia Fry, Manjusha Gaglani, Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner, Nicola P Klein, 2021, Effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines in ambulatory and inpatient care settings, New England Journal of Medicine, 385,
- Fatimah S Dawood, Philip Ricks, Gibril J Njie, Michael Daugherty, William Davis, James A Fuller, Alison Winstead, Margaret McCarron, Lia C Scott, Diana Chen, Amy E Blain, Ron Moolenaar, Chaoyang Li, Adebola Popoola, Cynthia Jones, Puneet Anantharam, Natalie Olson, Barbara J Marston, Sarah D Bennett, 2020, Observations of the global epidemiology of COVID-19 from the pre-pandemic period using web-based surveillance: a cross-sectional analysis, Lancet Infectious Diseases, 20,