Data High School

Curriculum Vitae

Steve E. Bellan

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University of California, Berkeley cell: +1-626-***-****

http://cnr.berkeley.edu/getzlab/

Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

people/steve_bellan.html

office: +1, 510-***-****

CURRENT APPOINTMENT

PhD Candidate, U.C. Berkeley, September 2006 -present

I develop empirical and analytical methods that integrate data from several

spatiotemporal scales to estimate

anthrax incidence in the plains zebra of Etosha National Park and assess the potential

causes and community -

wide consequences of this disease. I also explore how anthrax outbreaks affect black-

backed jackal movement,

foraging decisions, and subsequent implications for rabies virus and c anine distemper

virus epidemiology in

carnivores. Finally, I am using Demographic Health Survey data from countries across

Africa to understand the

proportion of HIV transmission due to extramarital intercourse.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. - University of California, Berkeley, Expected 2012

Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Data-driven modeling of infectious diseases in Africa: Anthrax in wildlife and HIV in

humans

Committee: Wayne Getz (advisor), Justin Brashares, Perry de Valpine, Alan H ubbard

M.P.H. - University of the California, Berkeley, 2008

School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology

Assessing mathematical models of dengue and chikungunya control when mosquitoes senesce

Advisor: Alan Hubbard

B.A. Princeton University, 2006

Honors Thesis: Reproductive behavioral ecology of the fiddler crab Uca terpsichores

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, High Honors

GRANTS & AWARDS

National Institutes of Health, Ecology & Evolution of Infectious Diseases Program (PI

Wayne Getz, co-

authored grant), 2007-2011 (~$1.7 million)

Bob Lane Endowed Graduate Student Award, 2011 ($1000)

Chang-Lin Tien Environmental Fellowship, 2009 -2010 ($47,000)

Rocca Center for African Studies Fellowship, 2009, 2010 ($12,000)

Envir Sci, Pol & Mgmt Travel Grant, 2007, 2010-12 ($4200)

Entomology Student Organization Travel Grant, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 ($2300)

Tanada Entomology Fellowship, 2008 ($1000)Behavior Thesis Award, Princeton University, 2006

Anthony B. Evnin Thesis Research Grant, 2006 ($1500)

Princeton Environmental Institute Research Grant, 2005 ($500)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Ph.D. Candidate U.C. Berkeley and Etosha National Park, Namibia, 2006 -present

Conducting doctoral research developing data-driven models of anthrax and HIV

surveillance to understand

various aspects of their dynamics and implications for disease control .

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M.P.H. Candidate U.C. Berkeley, 2007-2008

Conducted Master s research on how age dependent mortality in mosquito populations

affects the predicted

effectiveness of mosquito control measures in reducing transmission of arboviruses.

Independent Undergraduate Research,

Princeton U. and Smithsonian Tropical Res. Inst,

Panama, 2005 -2006

Conducted Honor s research investigating why male fiddler crabs ( Uca terpsichores)

display aggressive

threat behavior towards females during courtship behavior.

Field Assistant Princeton U., (Supervisor: Martin Wikelski, Princeton U.) Summer 2004

Conducted density estimation and radio -tracking of periodical cicadas.

Field AssistantPrinceton U. and Laidlaw Res. Facility, Davis, CA (Supervisor: Claire

Kremen), Summer 2003

Assisted graduate student research on native bee ecology and behavior in agricultural

and wild lands.

TEACHING AND MENTORSHIP EXPERIENCE

Organizer, Instructor, Mentor, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cape Town,

May-June 2009-current

At Meaningful Modeling of Epidemiological Data Clinics, lectured and mentored

participants on statistics,

epidemiology of infectious diseases, and on how and when mathematical models can yield m

ore insight from

epidemiological data than statistical models.

See http://lalashan.mcmaster.ca/theobio/mmed/index.php/Main_Page for more details.

Instructor, Mentor, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cape Town, May 2010-

current

Co-taught weeklong preparatory programs (Topics in Biomedical Sciences) for B.Sc.

Honours students in

Biomathematics at the University of Stellenbosch aimed at providing participants with the

ba ckground

necessary to attend the Meaningful Modeling of Epidemiological Data Clinic .

See http://lalashan.mcmaster.ca/theobio/mmed/index.php/Honours_Course for more details.

Instructor, Mentor, South African Wildlife College, Mpumalanga, South Africa, July -

August 2010

Mentored student projects and lectured on disease ecology and population dynamics at

two week institute and

follow-up workshop on quantitative conservation bio logy (Advanced Study Institute on

Conservation Biology ).

Mentor of undergraduate and master s students,

University of California at Berkeley,

2007-2011

Trained and supervised an undergraduate student (Caroline Jablonicky) on her honor s

thesis: Temporal

niche partitioning of scavengers at carcasses in Etosha National Park, Namibia.

Trained and supervised a master s student (Matthieu Sales) on his thesis: The effects

of demography and

distance to rest camps on black-backed jackal utilization of anthropog enic resources.

Mentored an undergraduate student (Melissa Chun) in Environmental Science, Policy &

Management through

the Undergraduate Mentorship Program (2007-2008).

Field mentor of master s and undergraduate students and volunteers

Trained and supervised students as field technicians (2006-2009), including students

from Namibia

(Martina KUsters, Heniritha Sibanda, Zepee Havarua) and a student from the US (Carolyn

Kobervig).

Developed and gave short course on statistics to field technicians (Feb -April, 2009).

Graduate Student Instructor, University of California at Berkeley, January-May 2007

Led computer lab and discussion component of upper level course in statistics and

experimental design

(ESPM 174). Majority of students were PhD students in the lif e sciences.

Private Tutor, Berkeley, California, September 2007May 2008

Tutored high school students in Spanish, biology, math and world geography.

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PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

MANUSCRIPTS IN REVIEW

Bellan SE, O Gimenez, R Choquet, WM Getz (in review). Extending distance sampling methods

for mortality

surveillance with opportunistic effort and temporally varying sighting cues . Biometrics.

MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS

Bellan SE, K Fiorella, D Melesse, BG Williams, J Dushoff. Inferring the source of HIV

infection in married

couples from the Demographic Health Survey.

Bellan SE, PCB Turnbull, E Blaschke, W Beyer, WM Getz. The effects of experimental

exclusion of vertebrate

scavengers on Bacillus anthracis spore density at anthrax carcasses.

Bellan SE, O Gimenez, R Choquet, O Spiegel, W Beyer, R Nathan, WM Getz. Disease

surveillance using

scavenger movement data.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Bellan SE (2011). Counting wildlife carcasses: Anthrax surveillance in Etosh a National

Park, Namibia. South

African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis Quarterly (3).

Bellan SE, JRC Pulliam, J Hargrove, B Williams, F Roberts, J Dushoff (2010). Building

Capacity for Meaningful

Epidemiological Modeling. South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis

Quarterly (2).

Pulliam JRC, SE Bellan, J Hargrove, B Williams, F Roberts, J Dushoff (2010). Building

Capacity for Meaningful

Modeling: A first step. Society for Mathematical Biology Newsletter 23(1): 6-7.

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES & SERVICE

Organizer of Meaningful Modeling of Epidemiological Data Clinics, Cape Town, May-June

2009-2011

Organize annual two week short courses ( Meaningful Modeling of Epidemiological Data

Clinics) that train

participants ranging from honors students to professors in data-driven mathematical

modeling with a focus on

applied questions concerning infectious diseases in Africa. Next clinic to be held May,

2012 .

Evolutionary Dynamics in Cancer: from mathematical models to cl inical therapies,

Almagro, Spain, Sep 2010

Attended James S. McDonnell Foundation workshop intended to bring mathematical

approaches from

evolution, ecology and epidemiology to cancer treatment research.

Advanced Study Institute on Mathematical Modeling o f Infectious Diseases in Africa, May

2007, 2008

Attended workshops on mathematical modeling in epidemiology.

Manuscript Reviewer. African Journal of Ecology, Biological Conservation, Conservation

Biology, Ecology,

Environmental Modeling and Assessment, Ko edoe, Journal of Animal Ecology, PLoS One.

PRESENTATIONS

NSF Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Conf, Madison, USA (talk & poster)

2011

Workshop on Conservation Biology, South African Wildlife College, RSA (invited talk)

2010

Meaningful Modeling of Epidemiological Data Clinic, Cape Town, RSA (invited talk)

2010/11

Etosha Ecological Institute, Etosha National Park, Namibia (talk) 2009/10/11

Namibian Environment & Wildlife Society, Windhoek, Namibia (invited talk) 2010

ASI on Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases, Cape Town, RSA (invited talk) 2009

Envir Sci, Pol & Mgmt Graduate Student Research Symposium, UC Berkeley (talk) 2008

SELECTED COURSEWORK

University of California at Berkeley, GPA: 3.98/4.00

Practical Applications of Epidemiologic Modeling the Dynamics of Inf. Dis. Processes

Methods in Developing Countries

Wildlife Biology and Managemen t Seminar

Applied Public Health

Epidemiology and Control of Inf. Dis.

Epidemiologic Analysis

Spatial Data Analysis

Ecological Modeling

Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods Seminar

Outbreak Investigation

Epidemiologic Methods II

Princeton University, GPA: 3.65/4.00 (in major 3.83/4.00)

Animal Behavior Biological Dynamics

Diversity of Animal Brains Cellular and Molecular Biology

Natural History of Mammals Introduction to Biostatistics

Ecology and Epidemiology of Parasites Molecular Evolutionary Genetics

COMPUTER SKILLS

Expert: R, ArcGIS, Quantum GIS, Microsoft Excel, WinBUGS, JAGS, Amazon Cloud Computing

Intermediate: Microsoft Access

LANGUAGES

Expert: English Intermediate: French, SpanishS.E. Bellan 5REFERENCES

Name: Professor Wayne Getz Name: Professor Jonathan Dushoff

Relationship: Ph.D. advisor Relationship: collaborator

Address: 137 Mulford Hall Address: 1280 Main Street West

Berkeley, CA 94720 USA Hamilton, Ontario L8S4K1, Canada

Office phone: +1-510-***-**** Office phone: +1-905-***-**** x26313

Email: *****@********.*** Email: *******@********.**

Name: Professor Perry de Valpine Name: Professor Art Reingold

Relationship: Ph.D. committee member Relationship: M.P.H. Mentor

Address: 137 Mulford Hall Address: 101 Haviland Hall

Berkeley, CA 94720 USA Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

Office phone: +1-510-***-**** Office phone: +1-510-***-****

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