Taylor Brock-Fisher is a graduate student in the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology program at Harvard. His work in the Sabeti Lab focuses on the application and use of genomic tools to traditional epidemiological investigations. He is interested in how genomics can improve our detection and response to emerging infectious diseases. He also helps to increase the lab’s collaboration with local public health teams and more broadly increase the use of genomic information to make actionable public health recommendations, in both high- and low-income settings.

Taylor has a BMath from the University of Waterloo in Statistics and Applied Mathematics and an MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His master’s thesis, completed under Adam Kucharski, described a novel modeling framework for investigating the role of institutional trust and hesitancy in large scale vaccination programs. Prior to joining the lab Taylor helped develop and lead the outbreak investigation and response team for Partners In Health’s Massachusetts COVID-19 response in collaboration with the MADPH.

When not thinking about epidemiology and global health, Taylor enjoys reading, making music, and a handful of transportation related hobbies (flying small planes, sailing, and the occasional walk along the Charles).