Spencer J. Fox, PhD

Spencer J. Fox, PhD

University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)

Research Associate

Expertise: EpidemiologyStatistical Epidemiologyintegrative biology

Spencer J. Fox is Associate Director of The University of Texas at Austin COVID-19 Modeling Consortium and a research associate at UT Austin. His expertise is in statistical modeling of infectious diseases and machine learning, and his research focuses on understanding emerging infectious diseases and pandemics, as well as developing response tools for public health officials. He earned his undergraduate degree in Biology at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and received a doctoral degree in Integrative Biology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2018, working with Professor Lauren Ancel Meyers. 

 

Fellowships & Awards

National Geographic Young Explorer (2017)

UT Austin recruitment fellowship (2013)

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“It will be difficult to consider strict interventions again, but acting early upon signs of resurgence will mean fewer days of social distancing orders.”

- COVID-19 outbreak lasts days longer for each day’s delay in social distancing

“When seasonal epidemics come into a population, they immunize the population for a short period of time against new types of influenza,” Fox said. “So pandemics are not able to, or are less likely to, emerge when that immunity is in the population, but once that immunity is lost after 30 (or) 40 days, then pandemics are more likely to emerge. That creates a predictive window for spring-summer emergence of pandemics.”

- https://thedailytexan.com/2018/01/22/ut-researchers-explain-the-timing-of-flu-pandemics

“The impact of delays may be particularly important for communities that are prone to rapid transmission, such as nursing homes, colleges, schools and jails. We need concrete plans for when and how to respond to rising cases to prevent unnecessarily long and costly restrictions.”

- https://www.patientcareonline.com/view/early-social-distancing-reduced-length-of-virus-outbreak-study-finds

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