Faculty

Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Medicine (Infectious Diseases); Division Head - Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases

Research Interests:

Leptospirosis; Dengue; bacterial meningitis; urban poverty; vaccine preventable diseases

Abdala, Nadia

Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:Applied clinical virology

Aksoy, Serap

Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:African trypanosomes; Bacterial symbionts of tsetse flies

Attardo, Geoffrey

Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:insect, vector, reproduction, genetics, biochemistry, tsetse, nutrition, viviparity, trypanosomiasis, africa

Bentley, Kevin

Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:Lymphatics; lymph nodes; Type 1 diabetes; Sjögren's syndrome; Lymphotoxin; homeobox genes; transgenic mice

Childs, Jamie

Senior Research Scientist in and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:hantaviruses; arenaviruses; rabies; rickettsia; bartonella; borrelia; leptospira

Diuk-Wasser, Maria

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:Environmental and ecological drivers of vector-borne and zoonotic diseases; Landscape epidemiology; Generation of spatio-temporal predictions of risk

Fish, Durland

Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Forestry And Environmental Studies

Research Interests:Vector-borne diseases; ecology; evolution; epidemiology; prevention; climate change; borrelia; babesia; ticks; mosquitoes

Galvani, Alison

Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Research Interests:Applications of epidemiology and evolutionary ecology in the study of numerous diseases

Grau, Lauretta

Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:Health psychology; HIV prevention

Heimer, Robert

Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Director, Emerging Infections Program

Research Interests:Mortality and morbidity in relation to injection drug use; HIV and hepatitis C transmission; evaluation of prevention and treatment for people who inject drugs

Humphries, Debbie

Clinical Instructor in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Khoshnood, Kaveh

Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:Infectious disease epidemiology

Kolev, Nikolay

Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:Trypanosoma brucei; RNA processing; Gene expression regulation

Krause, Peter

Senior Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and in Pediatrics (Infectious Disease) and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:Vector borne diseases

McMahon-Pratt, Diane

Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:Immune Response to Infectious Disease; immunotherapy; vaccine

Munstermann, Leonard

Senior Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Head Curator of Entomology (Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History)

Research Interests:Molecular genetics; insect vectors; phlebotomine sand flies; entomology; phylogeny; taxonomy; speciation

Niccolai, Linda

Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Director, HPV-IMPACT Project (Emerging Infections Program)

Research Interests:STIs; HIV

Pettigrew, Melinda

Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Research Interests:Infectious diseases

Ruddle, Nancy

Professor Emeritus of and Senior Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:Cell trafficking and inflammation in autoimmunity and lymphoid organ development

Tschudi, Christian

Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Director of Graduate Studies

Research Interests:African trypanosomiasis; Gene expression profiling; Gene discovery; Next-generation sequencing; RNA interference

Usmani-Brown, Sahar

Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:Babesia microti, Borrelia sp, Population Genetics, Biomarkers and Transgenics.

Weiss, Brian

Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:insect disease vector; symbiont; trypanosomiasis; Wigglesworthia; Sodalis

White, Ted

Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Secondary

Professor of Medicine (AIDS) and of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Director, Clinical and Community Research
Director, HIV in Prisons Program
Director, Community Health Care Van
Professor of Medicine, University of Malaya-Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA)
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases

Research Interests:Interface between infectious diseases and substance abuse; treatment of HIV, HCV, and tuberculosis in vulnerable populations (including injection drug users and prison inmates); antiretroviral therapy; extended release naltrexone, buprenorphine and methadone treatment in management of co-morbid conditions; healthcare integration; adherence interventions; behavioral interventions

Andiman, Warren

Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Disease) and of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Co-Director, Yale Adoption Clinic
Medical Director, Pediatric AIDS Care Program

Research Interests:Prospective longitudinal studies of clinical outcomes in a cohort of perinatally infected HIV-positive children; Morphologic, metabolic and endocrinologic consequences of longstanding HIV infection and antiretroviral therapy; Virologic and immunologic factors associated with long-term survival in perinatally infected HIV-positive children; AIDS clinical treatment trials in HIV-positive children; Transitioning long-term survivors of pediatric HIV infection into adult healthcare practices; Epidemiology and clinical manifestations of renal disease in HIV positive children

Baltimore, Robert

Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Disease) and of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and Clinical Professor of Nursing
Associate Hospital Epidemiologist (for Pediatrics) Yale New Haven Hospital

Research Interests:Neonatal Infections; Epidemiology of Community-Acquired Infections; Epidemiology of Nosocomial Infections

Bruce, Robert

Assistant Professor of Medicine (AIDS) and of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:substance abuse/dependence; infectious diseases; HIV; Hepatitis C

Bucala, Richard

Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology), of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Pathology and Residential College Associate Fellow in Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Research Interests:Mechanisms by which host immunity converts from a protective response to one producing disease and tissue pathology; Emergence of steroid resistance; Biochemical, biological, and genetic characterization of cytokine MIF; MIF's role in malaria; Role of fibrocytes in different systemic fibroses

Cappello, Michael

Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Disease), of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Microbial Pathogenesis
Director, Yale Program in International Child Health
Director, Yale World Fellows Program

Research Interests:Molecular Parasitology; Hookworm Pathogenesis & Vaccine Development; International Child Health

Dembry, Louise-Marie

Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Co-Director, Yale-New Haven Hospital Quality Improvement Support Services
Hospital Epidemiologist, Yale-New Haven Hospital

Research Interests:Hospital epidemiology--prevention and control of healthcare associated infections and antimicrobial resistant organisms; use of molecular typing techniques in study of these issues.

Fikrig, Erol

Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Microbial Pathogenesis
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Section Chief, Infectious Diseases

Research Interests:Vector-borne diseases; Lyme disease; Human granulocytic ehrilichiosis; West Nile virus

Miller, I George , Jr

John F. Enders Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Disease) and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Section Chief, Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Research Interests:Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV); Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus (KSHV); Tumor virology

Powell, Jeffrey

Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and of Forestry And Environmental Studies
Prof Ecology/Evolutionary Bio, Prof Sch of For & Env Stu
Prof Ecology/Evolutionary Bio
Professor
Professor

Shapiro, Eugene

Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics) and of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Deputy Director, Investigative Medicine Program
Co-Director of Education, of KL-2 Mentored Clinical Scholar Program and of Child Health Research, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation
Associate Chair for Clinical Translational and Educational Research, Department of Pediatrics
American Board of Pediatrics, Chair, Subboard of Infectious Diseases

Research Interests:Vaccines; Lyme disease; Epidemiology of infectious diseases

Sofair, Andre

Associate Professor of Medicine (General Medicine) and of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:Emerging infectious diseases

Faculty

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Voluntary & Adjunct

Lecturers

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