He received a BA in sociology and Spanish from Grinnell College, graduating in 2001. After Grinnell, he received a Thomas J Watson Fellowship to study hepatitis C epidemiology in Italy, India, and Australia. In 2006 Matthew earned his MPH in epidemiology from the University of Illinois at Chicago and then worked for the Asian Health Coalition of Illinois for three years as Senior Program Manager. He received his PhD in 2013 from the Department of Epidemiology at Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health. Matthew also conducted a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Departments of Epidemiology and Global Health at Emory University. Matthew’s research interests focus on the intersection of metabolic disorders and infectious diseases, principally the relation between diabetes mellitus and tuberculosis.