Rumi Chunara

Rumi Chunara is an Assistant Professor at NYU, jointly appointed at the Tandon School of Engineering (in Computer Science) and the College of Global Public Health. Her research interests are in developing computational and statistical approaches for acquiring, integrating and using data to improve population-level public health. Prior to NYU she was an Instructor and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Boston Children's Hospital Informatics Program and Harvard Medical School. Her PhD is from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.

Residents look from behind a closed gate as members of the military patrol during a nationwide lockdown aimed at limiting the spread of novel coronavirus—in Soweto, South Africa on April 23, 2020. The photo shows several people congregated behind a closed fence though there is a very large gap between the fence and the adjacent wall. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko
Poverty

One Size Doesn’t Fit All

by Rumi Chunara, Rajesh Vedanthan, ​​​​​​​Olatunji Matthew Kolawole, Gbenga Ogedegbe

When collecting COVID-19 data and modeling epidemic curves, we need to take more into account—in Africa and elsewhere