Faculty

Albert Ko

Department Chair

Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Department Chair - Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases

Research Interests:Leptospirosis; Dengue; Bacterial meningitis; Urban poverty; Vaccine preventable diseases

Nadia Abdala

Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:Applied clinical virology

Serap Aksoy

Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:African trypanosomes; Bacterial symbionts of tsetse flies

Geoffrey Attardo

Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:Insect vectors; Reproduction; Genetics; Biochemistry; Tsetse fly; Nutrition; Viviparity; Trypanosomiasis; Africa

Kevin Bentley

Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:Lymphatics; Lymph nodes; Type 1 diabetes; Sjögren's syndrome; Lymphotoxin; Homeobox genes; Transgenic mice

Tiago Castilho

Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Jamie Childs

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

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

Maria Diuk-Wasser

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:Disease ecology; eco-epidemiology; spatio-temporal risk modeling; babesiosis; emerging zoonoses; pathogen interactions; coinfection; geographic expansion; dengue; West Nile virus;

Durland Fish

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

Alison Galvani

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

Lauretta Grau

Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:Health psychology; HIV prevention

Robert Heimer

Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and 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

Debbie Humphries

Clinical Instructor in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Program Director- BA-BS/MPH Program in Public Health at Yale
Program Director – Global Health Studies Program at Yale College
Program Director – Global Health Fellows Program at Yale College
Director, Global Health Fellowships and Internships – Yale University

Research Interests:Infectious disease epidemiology

Nikolay Kolev

Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

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

Peter Krause

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

Research Interests:Vector borne diseases

Diane McMahon-Pratt

Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

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

Leonard Munstermann

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

Linda Niccolai

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

Research Interests:STIs; HIV

Sunil Parikh

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

Research Interests:translation research in malaria, pharmacology of antimalarials, hiv-malaria co-infection, host response to malaria infection, innate immunity to malaria

Melinda Pettigrew

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

Research Interests:Infectious diseases

Virginia Pitzer

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:Transmission dynamics; Rotavirus; Typhoid fever

Nancy Ruddle

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

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

Christian Tschudi

Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Director of Graduate Studies

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

Daniel Weinberger

Instructor in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:Vaccine effectiveness; Bacterial evolution; Strain dynamics

Brian Weiss

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

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

Ted White

Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Elsio Wunder, Jr.

Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Secondary

Frederick Altice

Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Director, Clinical and Community Research
Director, HIV in Prisons Program
Director, Community Health Care Van
Icon 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; HIV, HCV, and tuberculosis treatment 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

Warren Andiman

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

Robert Baltimore

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

Robert Bruce

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

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

Richard Bucala

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 the MIF cytokine family; MIF's role in malaria and global infectious diseases; Pharmacologic immuniomodulation of the MIF pathway; Role of fibrocytes in different systemic fibroses

Michael Cappello

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

Louise-Marie Dembry

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; molecular typing techniques in study of prevention and control of healthcare associated infections and antimicrobial resistant organisms

Erol Fikrig

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

Gerald Friedland

Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:HIV care; Injection drug use and HIV; Anti-retroviral agents; Tuberculosis, HIV and TB drug resistant TB; Prevention and treatment in vulnerable populations

I George Miller, 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

Jeffrey Powell

Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Forestry And Environmental Studies

Eugene Shapiro

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

Andre Sofair

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

Research Interests:Emerging infectious diseases

Voluntary & Adjunct

Matthew Cartter

Associate Clinical Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

James Hadler

Associate Clinical Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Lynn Sosa

Assistant Clinical Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:Tuberculosis- genotyping; Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Lecturers

John Anderson

Lecturer in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Adalgisa Caccone

Lecturer in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and Senior Research Associate in Forestry And Environmental Studies and Senior Research Scientist in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Sr Rsrch Scientist/Lect Ecology/Evolutionary Bio & Sch of For & Env Stu, Dir EcoSave, Lect EPH

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