Amy Bei, PhD
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Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Mircrobial Diseases)
Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global HealthBiography
Dr. Bei’s research interests in Plasmodium – the causative agent of malaria - lie at the intersection between population genetics, genomics, molecular genetics, epidemiology, and immunology. Her current research uses a translational systems biology approach to study the impact of antigenic diversity on immune evasion, transmission, and virulence in setting of declining malaria transmission. She is studying the development of genotype-specific and genotype-transcendent immunity and assess the effect of specific persisting genotypes on neutralizing humoral immune responses and their transmission potential in the mosquito vector. She also works on malaria vaccine candidate discovery and validation, studying the functional consequences of naturally arising diversity. Dr. Bei has ongoing research projects in Senegal in addition to many active collaborations in Sub-Saharan African countries in both East and West Africa.
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Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases
Associate Professor on TermPrimary
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Education & Training
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health/Hospital Aristide Le Dantec, Dakar, Senegal (2018)
- PhD
- Harvard University, Biological Sciences in Public Health
- Fulbright Fellow
- Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences (2004)
- BA
- Harvard College, Biochemistry (2003)
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- May 29, 2024
Messaging Matters: Yale School of Public Health expands student communications training
- May 16, 2024Source: Yale News
A life’s journey devoted to giving back comes full circle
- May 08, 2024
Yale School of Public Health professors participate in Emerging Leaders Forum
- January 08, 2024
Advanced training strengthens disease surveillance in Chad