Risk Factor Research LLC
Dr. Andrew G. Huff
Epidemiologist. Security engineer. Expert witness.
I build the systems meant to keep you alive and I study how they fail.
Independent analysis, expert testimony, and systems engineering across biosecurity, public health, artificial intelligence, and national security. Former vice president of EcoHealth Alliance. Former Q-cleared scientist at Sandia National Laboratories. Principal investigator on $5.8M of Defense Threat Reduction Agency biosurveillance research. Former U.S. Army infantryman.
- Opinion contributor, The Hill
- Author, The Truth About Wuhan (Skyhorse, 2022)
- Risk Factor newsletter, 25,000+ subscribers
- 129,000+ followers on X
- PhD, University of Minnesota, 2014
Who I work with
Litigation counsel
Independent analysis and sworn opinions in AI and machine-learning validation, epidemiology and biosurveillance, food-system and supply-chain risk, and critical-infrastructure resilience. Reports written to survive cross-examination.
Expert witness →Corporate and government
Threat, vulnerability, and risk assessment. Biosurveillance architecture. Open-source network and influence analysis. Security technology evaluated against liberty, security, and cost.
Consulting and advisory →Technology leaders
Detection systems, AI decision support, and internal knowledge systems delivered on fixed fee milestones with objective acceptance criteria.
Technology builds →Event and media bookers
Keynotes, executive briefings, and courses on biosecurity, risk, AI, and national security.
Speaking and training →Systems I have built
GRITS
Global Rapid Identification of Threats System: production natural-language processing that detects outbreaks in open text where no laboratory exists. Built as principal investigator on a $5.8M Defense Threat Reduction Agency program, then independently evaluated and verified in the peer-reviewed literature.
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, 2016 →CRISTAL
Criticality Spatial Analysis: DHS-funded supply-chain mapping and spatial vulnerability assessment developed at the Food Protection and Defense Institute after his evaluation of FASCAT, the sector’s prior tool, exposed its problems. Patent application filed; protected as a trade secret.
Risk Analysis, 2015 (the FASCAT evaluation) →FLIRT
Flight-network model that predicted the United States arrival states for Zika before the cases appeared, validated against the epidemic as it unfolded.
PLoS Currents Outbreaks, 2016 →How I work
Evidence first.
Sources cited, methods stated, every claim traceable to a document.
Known, assessed, unknown.
A hard line between the three, stated every time.
Bottom line first.
Written for the person who has to decide, then the analysis that supports it.
About
I spent my career inside the institutions that are supposed to protect you: the Army, national laboratories, the biodefense enterprise, and the pandemic-prediction organization at the center of the COVID-19 origins question. What I learned is that when protecting the public conflicts with protecting the institution, the institution usually wins. My work is built to break that pattern.
Latest
Never mind vaccines. America cannot even track dangerous diseases.
Why the United States has no common operating picture for disease, and the task force that would fix it.
Read the op-ed →Risk Factor, 3 September 2026The Bioevent Timeline
No Common Operating Picture, Part III. One real event, reconstructed as an information pathway, with confidence stated for every judgment.
Read on Substack →Start with an email.
contact@andrewhuff.com. Replies within one business day. For legal matters, send party names for a conflict check before any case detail.