Faculty

Rafael Perez-Escamilla

Director, Global Health Concentration

Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)
Director, Office of Public Health Practice

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

Nadia Abdala

Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:Applied clinical virology

Achyuta Adhvaryu

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

Serap Aksoy

Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Research Interests:African trypanosomes; Bacterial symbionts of tsetse flies

Elizabeth Bradley

Professor of Public Health (Health Policy)
Director, Yale Global Health Initiative
Faculty Director, Global Health Leadership Institute
Master, Branford College, Yale College

Research Interests:Global health; Implementation science; Hospice care; Cardiovascular disease and quality of care; Management research

Jamie Childs

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

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

Paul Cleary

Anna M. R. Lauder Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) and Professor of Sociology
Dean, Yale School of Public Health
Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA)

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

Leslie Curry

Senior Research Scientist in and Lecturer in Public Health (Health Policy)
Co-Director, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program

Research Interests:Quality of health care and patient experiences with health and health care systems; Organizational culture and performance; Scale up of innovations; Social and health care spending

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;

Adrienne Ettinger

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

Research Interests:Effects of environmental exposures on reproductive, perinatal, and children's health; Global health; Nutrition; Molecular epidemiology

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

Jhumka Gupta

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

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

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

Theodore Holford

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

Research Interests:The current research in which Professor Holford participates involves the development and application of statistical methods in health research. This work focuses on methodology for the analysis of spatial and temporal trends in disease.

Debbie Humphries

Clinical Instructor in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Trace Kershaw

Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases)

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

Kaveh Khoshnood

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