Bio
Alton Russell is an assistant professor in the McGill School of Population and Global Health (Montreal, Canada) and director of the Data-Driven Decision Modeling Lab, or D3Mod lab. The D3Mod lab aims to enable the efficient, effective, and equitable use of finite healthcare resources by developing, assessing, and applying traditional decision modeling methods (mathematical modeling, simulation, optimization) together with data-driven methods (machine learning, Bayesian statistics).
Russell’s research has informed health policy in blood banking and transfusion medicine, opioid harm reduction, infectious disease surveillance, and cancer prevention. Russell received undergraduate training in Industrial Engineering and Public Health at North Carolina State University, master's and doctoral training in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, and postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Technology Assessment and Harvard Medical School.