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Stephanie Perniciaro, PhD, MPH

Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
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Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases

350 George Street

New Haven, CT 06515

United States

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Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Biography

The surveillance and epidemiology of vaccine-preventable respiratory diseases, especially pneumococcal disease, is my passion. I want to determine how to efficiently and effectively protect populations from pneumococcal disease, both invasive (bacteremia, meningitis) and non-invasive (otitis media, non-bacteremic pneumonia). I'm interested in respiratory disease surveillance, serotype replacement, antibiotic resistance, vulnerable populations, vaccine schedules, vaccine advocacy, and overcoming vaccine hesitancy.

You can find me on Twitter @StephPerniciaro.

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Education & Training

PhD
RWTH Aachen University, Medical Microbiology (2019)
MPH
University of Pittsburgh, Epidemiology (2010)
BS
Creighton University, Biology (2007)

Research

Overview

I worked in a sewage treatment facility, analyzing wastewater, sludge, and solids in the laboratory and catching fish and aqueous invertebrates on the bioinventory team. I worked in a VA hospital laboratory, performing endocrine experiments on obese rats. I assisted on a study of thermoregulatory behavior of lizards in the Sonoran Desert. I worked in a nutritional epidemiology laboratory, processing blood and urine samples. I worked in intraoperative research, testing medical devices and collecting various secretions. I worked in the German National Reference Center for Streptococci, registering and analyzing high volumes of bacterial isolates, then designing and carrying out various epidemiological studies related to the surveillance and sample collection.

The overarching goal of my research now is to optimize vaccine impact for respiratory disease, which requires unity between surveillance, policy, and advocacy. I want to determine how we should select vaccines for particular populations and how we should design future vaccines. I want to establish the best way to structure vaccine schedules, which segments of the population should receive vaccines, and how to improve vaccine uptake. I investigate the current and potential effects of using vaccines. In order to unravel these questions, high-quality, long-term, stable disease surveillance systems are essential.

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Bacteremia; Child; Coinfection; Communicable Diseases, Emerging; Community-Acquired Infections; Data Collection; Disease Notification; Disease Outbreaks; Disease Transmission, Infectious; Emigrants and Immigrants; Endemic Diseases; Epidemiologic Studies; Genome-Wide Association Study; Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections; Immunization; Infant; Influenza, Human; Molecular Epidemiology; Pneumonia; Pneumonia, Bacterial; Population Surveillance; Public Health; Public Health Systems Research; Refugees; Sentinel Surveillance; Streptococcaceae; Streptococcus; Streptococcus pneumoniae; Streptococcus pyogenes; Vaccine-Preventable Diseases; Vulnerable Populations

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Stephanie Perniciaro's published research.

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2019

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Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases

350 George Street

New Haven, CT 06515

United States