Nathan Lo: Infectiousness of SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections and reinfections during the Omicron wave

Dr Lo will be discussing the preprint available here; Infectiousness of SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections and reinfections during the Omicron wave. 

About The Speaker

Dr Lo is a Faculty Fellow in Infectious Diseases (Research) in the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at UCSF. His research group http://lolab.ucsf.edu studies the transmission of infectious diseases with an ultimate goal of informing public health policy, blending diverse computational methodologies, including tools of simulation modeling, decision analysis, machine learning, and epidemiology. His interests span multiple infectious diseases including neglected tropical diseases, vaccine-preventable infections, and COVID-19. His group is affiliated with the Experimental and Population-based Pathogen Investigation center EPPIcenter.ucsf.edu. In 2022, he received a NIH/NIAID New Innovator Award.

His work translates scientific evidence into public health policy, with a track record of multiple studies that have changed policy in the fields of tropical diseases, HIV, and COVID-19. He works closely with policy organizations like the World Health Organization and the California Department of Public Health. From 2018-2021, he served as the lead writer and editor for the WHO guidelines on public health control and elimination of schistosomiasis.
His current research focuses on the following areas:
(1) Public health strategies to control the COVID-19 pandemic
(2) Public health strategies for tropical infections, such as helminths infections and typhoid fever
(3) Vaccine-preventable infectious diseases in the United States