Public Health and Health Professions
Hitchings Lab
Led by Matt Hitchings · Biostatistics
What we study
The Hitchings Lab studies infectious diseases using serological data to understand transmission, evaluate interventions, and target high-risk populations. They analyze antibody responses to pathogens, including COVID-19 and arboviruses like dengue and Zika.
What working here is like
- Computational
- Coding helps
- Projects
- 2
- Papers
- 4
Current projects
Causal AI for Predictive Modeling of Dengue Trajectories
Uses AI to predict dengue transmission patterns considering climate and interventions.
Immunological drivers of SARS-CoV-2 transition from epidemicity to endemicity
Studies immune responses to understand long-term COVID-19 dynamics in high-transmission regions.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Impact of Removing the Universal Hepatitis B Birth-Dose Vaccination in the US
2026 · Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Predicts how removing universal hepatitis B vaccination for babies might affect infections in the US.
- Genomic Diversity of Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus (HRSV) Type A in a Pediatric Cohort in the United States After the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic
2026 · Microorganisms
Analyzes HRSV genetic changes in kids after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- 1-Year follow-up evaluation of TAK-003 dengue vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic disease and hospitalisation in adolescents during the 2024–2025 outbreak in São Paulo, Brazil: a test-negative case-control study
2026 · EClinicalMedicine
Tracks vaccine protection against dengue over a year in Brazilian teens.
- HIV and the detectability of within-host minor variants in Mycobacterium tuberculosis whole-genome sequencing data
2026 · Epidemiology
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