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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

  • Robert Heimer, PhD

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

    Research Interests
    • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
    • Epidemiology
    • Foodborne Diseases
    • Hepatitis C
    • Injections
    • Public Health
    • Russia
    • Vietnam
    • Global Health
    • HIV Infections
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  • Linda Niccolai, PhD

    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
    • Epidemiologic Methods
    • Epidemiology
    • HIV
    • Sexually Transmitted Diseases
    • Vaccines
    • Communicable Diseases, Emerging
    • Qualitative Research
    • Human papillomavirus 11
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  • Melinda Pettigrew, PhD

    Professor Adjunct; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Drug Resistance
    • Pneumonia
    • Respiratory Tract Infections
    • Infection Control
    • Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
    • Gastrointestinal Microbiome
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  • Virginia Pitzer, ScD

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

    Research Interests
    • Ecology
    • Immunization
    • Paratyphoid Fever
    • Rotavirus
    • Typhoid Fever
    • Global Health
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  • Daniel Weinberger, PhD

    Associate Professor Tenure; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

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

    Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Member, Center for Infection and Immunity

    Research Interests
    • Aged
    • Carrier State
    • Epidemiology
    • Microbiology
    • Pneumococcal Infections
    • Pneumonia, Pneumococcal
    • Public Health
    • Respiratory Tract Infections
    • Saliva
    • Streptococcus pneumoniae
    • Coronavirus Infections
    • Pneumococcal Vaccines
    • Molecular Diagnostic Techniques
    • Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
    • Microbiota
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Secondary & Adjunct Faculty

  • James Meek, MPH

    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
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  • Eugene Shapiro, MD

    Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics) 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
    • Lyme Disease
    • Investigative Techniques
    • Pediatrics
    • Vaccines
    • Case-Control Studies
    • Infectious Disease Medicine
    • Translational Research, Biomedical
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  • Kimberly Yousey-Hindes, MPH

    Epidemiologist 3 and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Program Manager, RESP-NET, Connecticut Emerging Infections Program

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