Faculty across divisions involved in global health

Elizabeth Howe Bradley, MBA, PhD, Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) and of Nursing; Director, Yale Global Health Initiative; Director, Yale Global Health Institute; Head, Global Health Concentration

Abdala, Nadia

Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:Applied clinical virology

Adhvaryu, Achyuta

Assistant Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) and of Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Research Interests:Child health; Economic development; Intra-household resource distribution; Malaria; Health technology adoption; Tanzania

Aksoy, Serap

Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:African trypanosomes; Bacterial symbionts of tsetse flies

Childs, Jamie

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

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

Cleary, Paul

Anna M. R. Lauder Professor of Public Health and Professor of Sociology
Dean, Yale School of Public Health

Research Interests:Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation; Health Services Research

Curry, Leslie

Research Scientist in and Lecturer in Public Health (Health Policy)

Research Interests:quality of health care and patient experiences with health and health care systems; organization, financing of innovative models of long-term health care

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

Dubrow, Robert

Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Research Interests:Glioma; Glioblastoma; HIV; Cancer

Ettinger, Adrienne

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Research Interests:Effects of environmental exposures on reproductive, perinatal, and children's health; global health; nutrition; molecular epidemiology

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

Gupta, Jhumka

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Research Interests:Gender-based violence; Reproductive health; HIV; Mental health; Refugee; Immigrant; Human trafficking; Conflict settings

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

Holford, Theodore

Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Public Health (Biostatistics) and Professor of Statistics

Research Interests:Statistical methods in public health

Humphries, Debbie

Clinical Instructor in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Kershaw, Trace

Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Research Interests:HIV/STD prevention; Reproductive and maternal-child health epidemiology

Khoshnood, Kaveh

Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:Infectious disease epidemiology

Ko, Albert

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

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

Paltiel, A David

Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) and of Management

Research Interests:Operations research and disease simulation modeling

Perez-Escamilla, Rafael

Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Director, Office of Community Health

Research Interests:Breastfeeding; Household food security measurement and outcomes; Maternal HIV and child development; Community health workers; Type 2 diabetes; Community nutrition program design and evaluation; Maternal-child public health nutrition; Health disparities

Pettigrew, Melinda

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

Research Interests:Infectious diseases

Risch, Harvey

Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Research Interests:Cancer etiology and prevention; Epidemiologic methods; Pancreatic cancer; Ovarian cancer; Gastric cancer; Esophageal cancer; Helicobacter pylori and cancer

Ruger, Jennifer

Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) and Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Law

Research Interests:Health equity; Health economics; Global health; Political economy and health; Health systems; Health and social justice; Global health justice; Global health governance; Resource allocation; Financing; Access; Social determinants of health