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Respiratory Tract Infections

Respiratory tract infections are a major cause of disease and death globally. Research in the Department of the Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases includes studies on the impacts of vaccines against bacteria and viruses that cause pneumonia, laboratory and population studies of the ecology of bacteria in the respiratory tract (including microbiome studies), mathematical and statistical modeling of the effects of interventions, environmental studies and spatial modeling of the risk for legionnaire's disease, and surveillance for flu and other respiratory pathogens.

Faculty of Interest

  • Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Pharmacology; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
    • Epidemiology
    • Global Health
    • Foodborne Diseases
    • Hepatitis C
    • HIV Infections
    • Injections
    • Vietnam
    • Russia
    • Public Health
  • Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Director, HPV Working Group at Yale; Director, CT Emerging Infections Program at Yale, Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases

    Research Interests
    • Sexually Transmitted Diseases
    • Vaccines
    • Communicable Diseases, Emerging
    • Epidemiologic Methods
    • Epidemiology
    • Human papillomavirus 11
    • HIV
    • Qualitative Research
  • Professor Adjunct; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
    • Respiratory Tract Infections
    • Pneumonia
    • Infection Control
    • Gastrointestinal Microbiome
    • Drug Resistance
  • Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Co-director, Public Health Modeling Concentration; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Typhoid Fever
    • Paratyphoid Fever
    • Rotavirus
    • Immunization
    • Global Health
    • Ecology
  • Associate Professor Tenure; Co-director, Public Health Modeling Concentration; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Population Characteristics
    • Iceland
    • Netherlands
    • Public Health
    • Streptococcus pneumoniae
    • Respiratory Tract Infections
    • Denmark
    • Epidemiologic Methods
    • Europe
    • Fourier Analysis
    • Influenza, Human
    • Biology
    • Bacterial Infections
    • Americas
    • Diseases
    • Communicable Disease Control
    • Carrier State
    • Biostatistics

Secondary & Adjunct Faculty

  • Associate Director, Yale Emerging Infections Program, and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Associate Director, Yale Emerging Infections Program

    Research Interests
    • Epidemiology
    • Tick Control
    • Ticks
    • Zoonoses
  • Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases) and of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Vice Chair for Research, Department of Pediatrics, Pediatrics; Deputy Director, Investigative Medicine PhD Program, Investigative Medicine Program; Co-Director of Education, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation, YCCI Senior Leadership; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Education
    • Case-Control Studies
    • Investigative Techniques
    • Infectious Disease Medicine
    • Translational Research, Biomedical
    • Vaccines
    • Pediatrics
    • Lyme Disease
  • Epidemiologist 3 and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Program Manager, RESP-NET, Connecticut Emerging Infections Program

    Research Interests
    • Infectious Disease Medicine
    • Influenza, Human
    • Epidemiology
    • Lyme Disease
    • Zoonoses
    • Rabies
    • Population Surveillance

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