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Alessandra Orfano

Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
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Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

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Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

Biography

Dr. Orfano is an Associate Research Scientist in the department of Epidemiology and Microbial Diseases at Yale School of Public Health. She receive her master's degree (2012) and Phd (2016) in Health Sciences from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Brazil. During her PhD program she received an one year fellowship to develop part of her PhD training outside of Brazil and she spent one year at Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research- NIH. After finishing her PhD, she continued her training as post doc and in 2019 she joined the Yale School of Public Health as a postdoctoral associate, and in 2021 she became a junior faculty at the EMD-YSPH.

Dr. Orfano's research is focused on understanding the parasite vector interaction dynamic. She is currently working on Genetic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum and how this can affect the transmission to the Anopheles mosquito.

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Education & Training

Postdoctoral fellowship
Rene Rachou Research Institute, Fiocruz (2019)
PhD
Rene Rachou Research Institute-FIOCRUZ, Health Science (2016)
Visiting Fellow - PhD
in National Institutes of Health (2015)
MSc
Rene Rachou Research Institute-FIOCRUZ, Health Science (2012)
BSc
Bachelor in Biology. Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais- Brazil. (2009)

Research

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Alessandra Orfano's published research.

Publications

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2021

2020

2019

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

  • honor

    KL2 award

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