Erin Gabriel received her PhD from the University of Washington in 2012. She is an Associate Professor in Biostatistics at the University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on biostatistical methods development and the proper application of methods to problems in the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases. She is currently working on methodological research in the areas of nonparametric causal bounds, designs, and estimation methods for emulated and randomized clinical trials for the evaluation of prediction-based decision rules, and surrogate evaluation. Her general statistical areas of interest are causal inference and randomized trials.

Melanie Prague is a permanent researcher at Inria (University of Bordeaux, France) in the SISTM team (Statistics in Immunology and translational medicine) since October 2016. Since 2013, she holds a PhD in Biostatistics and Public Health from the University of Bordeaux, France. She also was a postdoctoral fellow during almost three years at Harvard School of Public Health (Boston, USA). Her research focuses on the development of statistical methods for treatment and prevention of infectious diseases. She develops both within-host and between-host models to accelerate the development of treatments and vaccines. Her main fundings are centered around applications on HIV, Ebola, Nipah and COVID-19.