While pursuing his PhD in Virginia Tech’s Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology program, he served as a liaison between the research teams building NDSSL’s simulation software and the governmental organizations use that technology to answer pressing policy questions. Over the past decade, he has helped lead a series of projects to assist policymakers in analyzing potential response strategies to major epidemics including influenza, Ebola, and Zika. Lewis’s expertise on these topics has been cited in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and television news networks around the country. His work has been published in f1000research and Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.