Caitlin Rivers
American epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins; writes the Force of Infection outbreak newsletter.
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- Caitlin Rivers is an American infectious-disease epidemiologist who works on outbreak forecasting and epidemic preparedness.
- She is an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she directs the Center for Outbreak Response Innovation, and she helped found the CDC's Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics.
- She writes Force of Infection, a weekly newsletter on what is going around, and wrote Crisis Averted (Viking, 2024).
Key facts
- Role
- Associate professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; directs the Center for Outbreak Response Innovation (as of 2026)2
- Earlier
- Civilian epidemiologist for the US Army from 2013 to 2015; Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security from 20171
- Government
- Helped found the CDC Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics2
- Writes
- Force of Infection, a weekly newsletter on outbreaks and respiratory illness2
- Book
- Crisis Averted: The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks (Viking, 2024)2
- Education
- PhD in computational epidemiology (2015) and MPH (2013), Virginia Tech; BA, University of New Hampshire (2011)1
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