Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Neurosurgery, Vice Chair for Global Health, Department of Neurosurgery, Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Program for Biomedical Ethics; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Interdepartmental Program in Neuroscience; Member, Yale Center for Brain and Mind Health
- Asia, Southeastern
- Bacteria
- Brain Diseases
- Central Nervous System Infections
- Meningomyelocele
- Neural Tube Defects
- Paraguay
- Viruses
- Africa South of the Sahara
- Coinfection
- Neonatal Sepsis
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- Bioinformatics
- Clinical Trials
- Disease Transmission
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Epidemiology Methods
- Genetics, Genomics, Epigenetics
- Global Health
- Climate Change
- Infectious Diseases
- Malaria
- Maternal & Child Health
- Modeling
- Parasitology
- Viruses
- Microbiome
- Capacity Building
- Neglected Tropical Diseases
- Child/Adolescent Health
- Mosquito-borne Diseases
- Network Analysis
- Randomized Trials
- Statistical Computing
- Trypanosomiasis
- Vector-borne Diseases
- Perinatal/Prenatal Health
- COVID-19
Dr. Steven Schiff is a pediatric neurosurgeon with interests in neural control engineering, sustainable health engineering and global health. He founded the Center for Neural Engineering at Penn State University, wrote the first book on Neural Control Engineering (MIT Press, 2012), and is now developing the Center for Global Neurosurgery at Yale University. He received the NIH Director’s Pioneer and Transformative Awards in 2015 and 2018, respectively, which have enabled him to pursue his interests in the sustainable control of infant infections in the developing world. This work has evolved into an exploration of what Schiff calls Predictive Personalized Public Health (P3H), and included leading the discovery of a new highly lethal infant brain disease in Africa - Neonatal Paenibacilliosis.