Bryan Lewis

Bryan Lewis is a Research Associate Professor at the University of Virginia, affiliated with the Biocomplexity Institute. His work bridges computational science and public health through infectious disease transmission modeling and simulation.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Virginia Tech, 2011
• M.P.H. in Infectious Diseases, University of California, Berkeley, 2001
• B.S. in Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University, 1997

With over 15 years of experience, Lewis specializes in computational epidemiology for public health decision-making. His research analyzes disease transmission dynamics across populations using social network construction, graph theory, and dynamic network modeling. He has led federal projects forecasting outbreaks of Ebola, pandemic influenza, melioidosis, and cholera while evaluating intervention responses.

Lewis secures federal funding to translate technical modeling into actionable public health insights, serving as a critical liaison between computational scientists and policymakers.

Based at the Biocomplexity Institute in Charlottesville, VA, he contributes to interdisciplinary research on complex systems affecting population health.