Dr. Ferdinands is a clinical decision scientist and epidemiologist with more than 25 years of experience applying quantitative modeling to complex real-world problems. Her work focuses on transforming expert knowledge and real-world data into structured frameworks that support better decision making.

Dr. Ferdinands earned her PhD in Health Policy with a concentration in Clinical Decision Sciences from Harvard University. She has spent much of her career at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she leads research on vaccine effectiveness and public health policy. Her work combines epidemiology, statistical modeling, and decision analysis to uncover insights from complex datasets and translate them into practical policy guidance.

An internationally recognized expert in empirical modeling, Dr. Ferdinands has published extensively in leading scientific journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, BMJ, Nature Communications, and Lancet Infectious Diseases. She is an invited speaker on vaccine effectiveness and public health policy and serves as a peer reviewer for many of the world’s most respected medical and scientific journals.

At Immediator, Dr. Ferdinands designed the core analytic framework behind PRISM, the company’s proprietary data-science engine. Her work translates decades of litigation insight into measurable variables, enabling the platform to quantify alignment between parties and generate a Probability of Imminent Settlement signal.