Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases
Research
The faculty and students in EMD carry out interdisciplinary
research ranging from field and laboratory based studies in vector
borne diseases, to emerging infections, to host
defense and pathogenesis. Students have unique opportunities to
use the Department's special laboratory facilities for bio-containment
of infectious agents and for rearing and studying arthropod disease
vectors. The faculty members also have extensive international
collaborations underway in Africa, Asia,
Central and South America, and Russia, which the students participate
in.
Ongoing research projects include
- Epidemiology of Hepatitis C among Drug User Networks
- Evaluation of Comprehensive Programs to Reduce Disease Mortality and Morbidity in Injection Drug Users
- Surveillance of Foodborne Illnesses
- Evaluation of Peridomestic Lyme Disease Control Efforts
- Impact of Infant Vaccination on Influenza Hospitalization Rates
- Optimizing Hepatitis B Vaccination for High Risk Populations
- Interaction of Tsetse, Symbiontic Hora and Trypanosomes
- Molecular Epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumonia
- Biology and Control of Lyme Disease Borrelia
- Surveillance and Control of West Nile Virus
- Population Genetics of Disease Vectors
- Leishmaniasis Vaccine and Mechanisms of Pathogenesis
- Regulation of Gene Expression in Trypanosomes
- The TNF Family in Murine Models of Type I Diabetes Mellitus,
Multiple Sclerosis, and Lymphoid Organ Development
- Syringe Availability and AIDS Risk
- Behavioral and Molecular Epidemiology of Chlamydia Infections
- Spatial Mapping of Sexually Transmitted Infections
- Infectious Disease Modeling
Interdisciplinary Research and Special Projects
Faculty
PRIMARY
Serap Aksoy, Ph.D., Division
Head
Nadia Abdala, Ph.D., D.V.M.
Mathew L. Cartter, M.D., M.P.H.
James E. Childs, Ph.D.
Maria A. Diuk-Wasser, Ph.D.
Durland Fish, Ph.D.
Alison P. Galvani, Ph.D.
Lauretta E. Grau, Ph.D.
James L. Hadler, M.D., M.P.H.
Robert Heimer, Ph.D.
Kaveh Khoshnood, Ph.D.
Leonard E. Munstermann, Ph.D.
Diane McMahon-Pratt, Ph.D.
Linda M. Niccolai, Ph.D.
Melinda M. Pettigrew, Ph.D.
Nancy H. Ruddle, Ph.D.
Christian Tschudi, Ph.D
EMERITUS
Martine Y.K. Armstrong, M.D.
Curtis L. Patton, Ph.D.
Gregory H. Tignor, Sc.D.
SECONDARY
Warren A. Andiman, M.D.
Robert S. Baltimore, M.D.
Richard Bucala, M.D.
Michael Cappello, M.D.
Louise-Marie Dembry, M.D.
Erol Fikrig, M.D.
Gerald H. Friedland, M.D.
I. George Miller, M.D.
Eugene D. Shapiro, M.D.
Andre N. Sofair, M.D.
LECTURERS
Louis Alexander, Ph.D.
John F. Anderson, Ph.D., M.S.
Theodore G. Andreadis, Ph.D.
Adalgisa Caccone, Ph.D.
Benjamin A. Fontes, M.P.H., C.B.S.P.
Ruthanne Marcus, M.P.H.
RESEARCH AFFILIATES
Virginia H. Hodgkinson, Ph.D.
Louis A. Magnarelli, Ph.D.
Clara Ocampo-Duran, Ph.D.
Nancy Saravia, Ph.D.
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