Morgan Goheen, MD, PhD

Dr. Goheen serves as faculty Instructor in the Section of Infectious Diseases within the Department of Internal Medicine. As a physician scientist, her current research focuses on the mosquito vector’s role in malaria transmission dynamics and drug resistance spread in sub-Saharan Africa with lab work based in the Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases Department in the Yale School of Public. This vector-based malaria work builds on the blood stage malaria pathogenesis expertise she gained in graduate school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she completed her PhD in Microbiology and Immunology examining the cellular level relationship between iron deficiency anemia, iron supplementation, and malaria susceptibility. Throughout her research career, Dr. Goheen has collectively spent several years working throughout sub-Saharan Africa, including her PhD research conducted in The Gambia and her current work focus in Burkina Faso. Within her clinical specialty of Infectious Diseases, she has specific interest in tropical medicine and helped start the Travel and Tropical Medicine Clinic at the Yale Center for Infectious Diseases.