Paul L Delamater

Paul Delamater is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, a Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center and Sheps Center for Health Services Research, and an Associate at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Delamater has particular interest in research relating to the spatial components of health and health care. He employs geographic information systems (GIS) and statistical/spatial analysis to better understand population health issues. His recent research has focused on understanding childhood vaccination, herd immunity, and vaccine-preventable diseases in the United States.


Julie Swann

Julie Swann is the department head and A. Doug Allison Distinguished Professor of the Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at North Carolina State University. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to joining NC State, she was the Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she co-founded and co-directed the Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems, one of the first interdisciplinary research centers on the Georgia Tech campus. In 2009, she was on loan as a science advisor for the H1N1 pandemic response at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


Rachel Woodul

Rachel Woodul is a PhD Student in the Department of Geography and a Research Assistant at the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Rachel’s research interests include epidemic modeling, disease ecology, and infectious diseases, with a particular focus on pandemic influenza. She employs geographic information systems (GIS), spatio-statistical and epidemiological analysis, and ecological frameworks to understand transmission dynamics and population-level impacts of epidemics and pandemics. Her recent research has focused on simulating the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic in a modern population, pandemic hospital capacity modeling, and modeling vulnerability to mortality during a pandemic.


Amelia Woodall

Amelia Woodall is a senior undergraduate student and a Research Assistant at the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Majoring in environmental studies with a double minor in geographic information systems (GIS) and geography, Amelia’s interests revolve around the intersections of population, environment, and development, with a particular focus on environmental justice and resource accessibility. As a part of the NC COVID team, she applies her knowledge of R to create user-friendly interactive models to highlight trends in case rates and conduct statistical analyses.