Matthew Scotch

Matthew Scotch is a Professor and Associate Dean of Research at Arizona State University's College of Health Solutions. He also serves as Assistant Director of the Biodesign Center for Environmental Health Engineering and as a Senior Global Futures Scientist at Global Futures Scientists and Scholars.

• Education:
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Yale University (2006–2008)
• M.P.H., Yale University (2007)
• Ph.D., Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh (2006)
• M.A., Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University (2002)
• B.A., Health and Society, University of Rochester (1998)

Research Interests focus on genomic epidemiology of RNA viruses, bioinformatics, and wastewater-based epidemiology, with applications to influenza A viruses, phylodynamics, and NLP for health data. His work bridges wet lab and dry lab approaches to study viral diversity, evolution, and public health surveillance.

Publications highlight his leadership in genomic epidemiology, including influenza, enterovirus, and SARS-CoV-2 research. Key methods involve high-throughput sequencing, long-read sequencing, and environmental pathogen detection.

• Scientific Awards
• 2025: Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics
• 2024: Member, Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI), ASU

Advising includes mentoring PhD student Peter Skidmore and multiple student authors across publications (* indicates student authors). Grants include NIH/NIAID R01AI164481 for SARS-CoV-2 metadata enrichment, NSF/BIO 2412446 for wastewater virus analysis, and NSF-CSIRO collaborations on AI bias in disease modeling.