JHU CSSE COVID-19 Dashboard
In January 2020 Dr. Gardner and her former student, Ensheng Dong, introduced an interactive web-based dashboard to track all COVID-19 cases worldwide. This dashboard, hosted in Center for Systems Science […]
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About Lauren Gardner
Alton and Sandra Cleveland Professor of Civil and Systems Engineering
Lauren Gardner is passionate about improving societal wellbeing through generating open data resources and translating science into action. She is an expert in building large scale data collection systems and building data driven models of infectious disease risk. Specifically, she developed and led the Johns Hopkins CSSE COVID-19 interactive dashboard during the Pandemic. She also leads various interdisciplinary research projects which bring together systems engineers, economists, behavioral scientists, infectious disease modelers and public health experts to progress the state of the art in global epidemiological risk assessment.
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Research Projects
U.S. Measles Tracker
The project is a collaborative, interdisciplinary effort conducted by a group of researchers at Johns Hopkins University who are tracking and modeling the risk of measles in the U.S. It reflects contributions […]
U.S. MMR Vaccination Trends
We collected county-level two-dose MMR vaccination rates for kindergarteners from each state’s department of health website from 2017 to 2024, where available. The dataset includes at least one year of […]
News Stories
Three from JHU CaSE Receive Nexus Program Funding
Faculty members Lauren Gardner, Yury Dvorkin, and Magdalena Klemun are among this year’s recipients of Nexus Award Program funding, which supports programming, research, and teaching activities in each academic division of Johns Hopkins University
Lauren Gardner, creator of the COVID-19 Dashboard, launches measles tracking tool with cross-institutional team
Gardner, who helped the world track the COVID-19 pandemic, is applying her expertise to track and model a new public health threat: measles
Associate Professor Lauren Gardner Receives Funding from the National Science Foundation to Further COVID-19 Tracking Efforts
Congratulations to CaSE Associate Professor Lauren Gardner who recently received a Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grant from the National Science Foundation to support the management and development of the COVID-19 online […]