Nita Madhav is an epidemiologist and risk modeler who was CEO of Metabiota from 2019 - 2022.
[3] After time at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and AIR Worldwide,[4] Madhav joined Metabiota to work on infectious disease modeling and data science.
During the ensuing five years, Madhav's team worked on models to predict epidemiological preparedness and readiness of economies to absorb losses experienced in these extreme, "Black swan theory" events.
[6] Along with colleagues from Stanford and Metabiota, Madhav co-authored a chapter on pandemic preparedness for the World Bank.
[8] In 2020, Madhav remarked that Metabiota's AI-powered models were capable of forecasting epidemics based on both formal and informal data sources.