Nicholas Reich

Professor of Biostatistics / Director of Influenza Forecasting Center of Excellence University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Amherst MA

Nicholas Reich's research focuses on infectious disease modeling and optimizing design and analysis for cluster-randomized studies.

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University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Expertise

Infectious Disease Modelling
Flu forecasting
COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
Biostatistics
Influenza Pandemics
COVID-19 (Coronavirus) forecast models
COVID-19 forecasting

Biography

Nicholas Reich has been on the forefront of analyzing models that forecast infectious diseases, including COVID-19. His work has been featured in publications around the world, including the New York Times, Science magazine and Foreign Policy.

Reich runs the UMass-based CDC Influenza Forecasting Center of Excellence, one of two in the nation. It has produced some of the world’s most accurate models in recent years, In April 2020 he developed a COVID-19 forecasting hub that unified multiple models in an effort to produce a more accurate picture of the potential impacts of the novel coronavirus. These forecasts were used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and helped inform the public health response to the pandemic.

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Education

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Ph.D.

Biostatistics

Carleton College

B.A.

English

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What the end of the COVID-19 emergency means for free vaccines, health data and more

CBS News  online

2023-02-09

The outside group of modelers that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention relies on to forecast trends in the virus are also planning to continue producing their projections with the agency. "We do expect to continue running COVID hospitalization and likely death forecasts too for perhaps at least another year. Case forecasts I'm not as sure about," saod Nicholas Reich, professor of biostatistics at the University of Massachusetts.

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For now, wary US treads water with transformed COVID-19

AP  online

2022-07-03

Nicholas Reich comments about the current state of COVID-19. He says, "We’ve seen COVID hospitalizations increase to around 5,000 new admissions each day from just over 1,000 in early April. But deaths due to COVID have only increased slightly over the same time period."

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New White House Covid projection puzzles experts and catches some Biden officials off guard

CNN  tv

2022-05-13

Nicholas Reich comments on the White House's latest COVID projection that the U.S. could see 100 million new COVID infections in the fall and winter if Congress doesn’t approve additional funding to fight the pandemic. Reich says, “It's an outcome that we should be thinking about and preparing for. Does it mean it's absolutely going to happen? No.”

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