Claire Perrin Smith, MHS, PhD
Faculty Observer Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
PhD in Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2024)
MHS in Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2024)
BA in Applied Mathematics, Yale University (2017)
About: Claire is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Univeristy of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she is part of Atlantic Coast Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics and Analytics. Her work focuses on the development of inferential methods for infectious disease dynamics.
Selected publications:
Smith, Read, Riley, Cummings, Kwok, Jiang, Lessler. (2025) First- and Second-Order Social Contact Network Structure in Southern China. Journal of the Royal Society Interface
Smith, Hartman, Kugler, Little, Baker, Fairlie, Fernandez, Hagen, Honie, Laeyendecker, Midgely, Parker, Sandoval, Takahashi, Hammitt, Sutcliffe. (2024) The Trajectory of Antibody Responses One Year Following SARSCoV-2 Infection among Indigenous Individuals in the Southwest United States. Viruses
Smith, Lessler, Hedge, Bhuiyan, Islam, Ahmmed, Chowdhury, Khan, LaRocque, Charles, Weil, Calderwood, Ryan, Harris, Azman, Qadri, Wiens. (2026) Estimating the Transmisison Potential of Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Cholera Cases from Household Microbiological and Clinical Data. medRxiv
Wiens, Smith, Badillo-Goicoechea, Grantz, Grabowski, Azman, Stuart, Lessler. (2022) In-Person Schooling and Associated COVID-19 Risk in the United States over Spring Semester 2021. Science Advances