Lauren Gardner

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Lauren Marie Gardner is an epidemiologist and engineer.

Gardner studied civil engineering and architecture at the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's degree in 2006, a master's degree in 2008 and a doctorate in 2011 ( Network based prediction models for coupled transportation-epidemiological systems ). Since her dissertation, she has been working on the coupling of epidemics and traffic routes. In 2011 she became a lecturer at the University of New South Wales . At the same time she was a fellow at the Public Health Research Center of the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) at the University of Melbourne. From 2019 she taught as an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins University and is co-director of the Center for Systems Science and Engineering there.

Gardner analyzed, among other things, in 2019 at which locations in the USA measles epidemics are most likely and modeled the outbreak of the zika virus epidemic in North, Central and South America in 2015/2016 .

She is the initiator of the interactive web-based dashboard on the Covid-19 pandemic at Johns Hopkins University. It went online for the first time on January 22, 2020 and had 1.2 billion hits a day at the beginning of March alone. After initially working with two doctoral students, her team of twelve from March will update the worldwide Covid-19 cases several times a day. In early March 2020, she was one of the experts who testified before Congress about the pandemic.

She explains discrepancies between the number of cases, for example from the Robert Koch Institute , which publishes the official figures of the national German health authorities, by the fact that they are more up-to-date and also rely on reliable media and local health facilities.

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  • E. Dong. H. Du, L. Gardner: An interactive web-based dashboard to track Covid-19 in real time, Lancetm, Volume 20, Issue 5, May 1, 2020, P 333–334, Online

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  1. ↑ Johns Hopkins University's Coronavirus Dashboard
  2. ↑ Susan Snyder, Johns Hopkins coronavirus dashboard offers a real-time window on a global pandemic , The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 19, 2020
  3. ^ Christian Rickens, Barbara Gillmann: Lauren Gardner. This woman is behind the corona data from Johns Hopkins University , Handelsblatt, March 23, 2020
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SURNAME Gardner, Lauren
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gardner, Lauren Marie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American engineer and epidemiologist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century