She works in fields such as evolutionary biologist, epidemiologist, and ecologist at the University of Tennessee for the Departments of Ecology and Evolution & Mathematics.
Her research focuses on the mathematics of epidemiology, evolutionary & behavioral ecology, and conservation biology.
[2] Her most cited papers are: In addition to being director of NIMBioS, Nina Fefferman is the PI and lead investigator for PREEMPT Institute which is an NSF funded PPIP Phase I pandemic preparedness research institute.
She served as a principal investigator at CCICADA (US Dept of Homeland Security Command, Control, and Interoperability Center for Advanced Data Analysis) to research various applications of complex systems.
She was a center co-director at InForMID (Tufts University Initiative for the Forecasting and Modeling of Infectious Diseases) as a researcher and lead in the area of mathematical modeling of infectious disease epidemiology.