Al Ozonoff, Ph.D, joined the Department of Biostatistics in 2002 as a post-doctoral Research Fellow under the mentorship of Dr. Marcello Pagano. His graduate training was in pure mathematics. He continues as an active participant of Dr. Pagano's Surveillance Working Group.
Dr. Ozonoff's methodologic interests include statistical problems related to biosurveillance and public health surveillance. He continues to collaborate with informaticians and public health officials in the design and data analysis of real-time surveillance systems, which have shown potential to provide early warnings of major public health events such as epidemic or pandemic influenza. He currently serves as principal investigator of a research grant sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) BioSense Initiative, developing methodology to improve and enhance the outbreak detection capabilities of a nationwide surveillance system.
Recently, Dr. Ozonoff has focused his interests on influenza. Current research projects include: spatio-temporal models to describe the spread of respiratory disease at the population level; evaluation and improvement of methodology used to analyze influenza surveillance data; and application of time series methods to influenza forecasting.
