Marisa Eisenberg, PhD, MS

• PhD, Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 2009
• MS, Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 2007
• BS, Cybernetics, University of California, Los Angeles, 2003

Research Interests:
Mathematical modeling, parameter identifiability and estimation, infectious diseases, COVID-19, environmentally-driven diseases, wastewater monitoring, systems science, public health technology

Research Projects:
Eisenberg's work includes a range of collaborative projects with the state of Michigan focused on understanding the COVID-19 pandemic. These include the mistartmap.info dashboard, as well as a range of other tools (more information available at dataepi.org)
https://mistartmap.info/ https://dataepi.org/

Eisenberg is also involved in several projects focused on wastewater surveillance of a range of pathogens (much of our public-facing data can be found at: https://um.wastewatermonitoring.dataepi.org/)

Many of Prof. Eisenberg's research group's projects involve developing systems models to understand infectious disease dynamics, explore alternative intervention approaches, and generate predictions or counterfactuals

From the more theoretical/methodological side, Eisenberg and her research group work on a wide range of parameter estimation, identifiability, and uncertainty quantification problems. This work includes developing mathematical and computational methods for understanding parameter identifiability.

Additionally, Eisenberg's research includes projects related to social network data and analysis, cancer (particularly HPV-related cancers), multi-scale modeling, and developing public health technology

Brouwer AF, Eisenberg JN, Pomeroy CD, Shulman LM, Hindiyeh M, Manor Y, Grotto I, Koopman JS, Eisenberg MC. Epidemiology of the silent polio outbreak in Rahat, Israel, based on modeling of environmental surveillance data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2018 Nov 6;115(45):E10625-33.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1808798115 

Zelner J, Eisenberg M. Rapid response modeling of SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Science. 2022 May 6;376(6593):579-80.
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abp9498 

Havumaki J, Eisenberg JN, Mattison CP, Lopman BA, Ortega-Sanchez IR, Hall AJ, Hutton DW, Eisenberg MC. Immunologic and epidemiologic drivers of norovirus transmission in daycare and school outbreaks. Epidemiology. 2021 May 1;32(3):351-9.
https://journals.lww.com/epidem/Abstract/2021/05000/Immunologic_and_Epidemiologic_Drivers_of_Norovirus.7.aspx?context=FeaturedArticlesandcollectionId=1 

Havumaki J, Meza R, Phares CR, Eisenberg MC. Comparing alternative cholera vaccination strategies in Maela refugee camp: using a transmission model in public health practice. BMC infectious diseases. 2019 Dec;19(1):1-7.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12879-019-4688-6 

Kao YH, Eisenberg MC. Practical unidentifiability of a simple vector-borne disease model: Implications for parameter estimation and intervention assessment. Epidemics. 2018 Dec 1;25:89-100.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436517301627 

Eisenberg MC, Campredon LP, Brouwer AF, Walline HM, Marinelli BM, Lau YK, Thomas TB, Delinger RL, Sullivan TS, Yost ML, Goudsmit CM. Dynamics and determinants of HPV infection: the Michigan HPV and Oropharyngeal Cancer (M-HOC) study. BMJ open. 2018 Oct 1;8(10):e021618.
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/8/10/e021618.abstract 

And for the full list of publications, please see: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RhyNk3EAAAAJandhl=enandoi=ao 

Email: marisae@umich.edu 

Office: 734-763-2991

Address: M5166 SPH II
1415 Washington Heights
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109

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