Rishi Kowalski is a public health worker and data scientist currently working at the Department of Envrionmental Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

(research)
Ongoing research contributions include geospatial statistics assessing environmental drivers of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1) transmission in farms, data cleaning and statistical work evaluating SARS-CoV-2 transmission in New York City schools, and statistical and survey work estimating the burden of Chagas' Disease within NYC residents. Recent publications can be found here. (less)

(previous positions)
Rishi previously worked for the Cook County Department of Public Health (CCDPH), primarily on problems relating to syndromic surveillance of opioid-involved overdoses, and communicable diseases. He also worked in wastewater surveillance; some code relating to classification of wastewater viral trends can be found here.

From 2018-2020, Rishi was a tactical data and video analyst for the United States Soccer Federation. (less)