About the Author

Walt Beyeler

Walt Beyeler of Sandia National Laboratories has experience developing models of complex systems for the simulation of disease transmission, control, and resource utilization. Application contexts include evaluating strategies for pandemic influenza, detecting and countering epidemics in herd animals in Afghanistan, improving medical laboratory systems to speed the diagnosis of Ebola patients in West Africa, and using medical logistics modeling to anticipate and resolve resource shortfalls that arise from the COVID-19 pandemic.