Pandemic Center

Jorge Ledesma is a third-year epidemiology doctoral candidate interested in infectious disease modeling and pandemic preparedness. Prior to enrolling in the PhD program, he was a post-baccalaureate fellow at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) where he was the primary modeler for tuberculosis burden estimation in the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study. Since coming to Brown, his research has focused on evaluating strategies for preventing widespread COVID-19 transmission. He will leverage this work in his dissertation where he is currently assessing the contributions of pandemic preparedness capacities in supporting effective national COVID-19 responses.