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Global Health/Tropical Diseases

Work in the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases reflects our School’s commitment to improving health around the world. Our faculty apply their expertise in pathogen genomics, modeling of infectious diseases, and field epidemiology to tackle some of the most challenging global health issues, including respiratory tract infections, enteric infections, malaria, trypanosomiasis, leptospirosis, arboviruses, tuberculosis, and HIV. We collaborate with local and international partners to enhance surveillance systems, inform evidence-based interventions, and optimize resource allocation. This unique combination of expertise in our Department has been applied to strengthen responses to global crises and inform new approaches to address persistent global health challenges.

EMD researchers specialize in many other tropical diseases, including vector-transmitted diseases such as malaria, zika, leptospirosis, leishmaniasis, human African trypanosomiasis.

Faculty of Interest

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

    Research Interests
    • Trypanosomiasis, African
    • Tsetse Flies
    • Global Health
    • One Health
  • Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Mircrobial Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Africa
    • Ecology
    • Genetics
    • Genetics, Population
    • Senegal
    • Malaria, Falciparum
    • Molecular Epidemiology
    • Malaria Vaccines
    • Disease Transmission, Infectious
    • Genomics
    • Host-Pathogen Interactions
    • Adaptive Immunity
    • Biostatistics
  • Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Anthrax
    • Arboviruses
    • Ecology
    • Malaria
    • Plague
    • Global Health
    • Climate Change
    • Machine Learning
    • One Health
    • Data Science
    • Legal Epidemiology
    • Viral Zoonoses
  • Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

    Research Interests
    • Drug Resistance, Microbial
    • Epidemiology
    • Europe, Eastern
    • Models, Biological
    • Public Health
    • South America
    • Tuberculosis
    • HIV Infections
    • Molecular Epidemiology
    • Africa South of the Sahara
  • Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Medicine (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Director, Implementation Science Track

    Research Interests
    • Critical Care
    • Tuberculosis
    • Global Health
    • Mobile Applications
    • COVID-19
  • Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Associate (Adjunct) Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Affiliated Faculty, Program in Addiction Medicine; Co-Director, Global Health Justice Partnership; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Computer Simulation
    • Decision Making
    • Hepatitis C
    • HIV
    • Operations Research
    • Political Systems
    • Prisoners
    • Public Policy
    • Social Justice
    • Social Medicine
    • Tuberculosis
    • United States Food and Drug Administration
    • Causality
    • Drug Approval
    • Drug Users
    • Social Determinants of Health
  • Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Aedes
    • Arthropod Vectors
    • Chikungunya virus
    • Culex
    • Dengue Virus
    • Disease Outbreaks
    • Epidemiology
    • Genetics, Microbial
    • Molecular Sequence Data
    • RNA Viruses
    • West Nile virus
    • Directed Molecular Evolution
  • 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
  • Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Program Co-Director, Global Health Ethics Program, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
    • Epidemiology
    • Ethics
    • HIV
    • Human Rights
    • Public Health
    • Violence
    • Global Health
    • Infectious Disease Medicine
  • Raj and Indra Nooyi Professor of Public Health and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Medicine (Infectious Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Dengue
    • Epidemiology
    • Leptospirosis
    • Urban Health
    • Global Health
    • Meningitis, Bacterial
    • Infectious Disease Medicine
  • Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

    Research Interests
    • Antigenic Variation
    • Gene Expression Regulation
    • Parasites
    • Trypanosoma
    • Trypanosomiasis, African
    • Transcriptional Activation
  • Professor Emeritus of Public Health; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Biochemistry
    • Epidemiology
    • Leishmaniasis
    • Microbiology
    • Parasitology
    • Tropical Medicine
  • Senior Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Head Curator of Entomology (Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History)

    Research Interests
    • Colombia
    • DDT
    • El Salvador
    • Entomology
    • Biological Evolution
    • Genetics
    • Guatemala
    • Honduras
    • Insect Vectors
    • Leishmaniasis
    • Leishmaniasis, Visceral
    • Malaria
    • West Nile virus
    • Global Health
    • Yellow Fever
    • Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous
    • Communicable Diseases, Emerging
  • Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Infectious Diseases; Co-Chair Downs Fellowship, Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases; co-PI Yale Malaria Evolution and Environments Laboratory, Anthropology

    Research Interests
    • Africa
    • Burkina Faso
    • Cameroon
    • Developing Countries
    • Diagnosis
    • Epidemiology
    • Malaria
    • Parasitic Diseases
    • Public Health
    • Uganda
    • Global Health
    • Infectious Disease Medicine
  • Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Co-director, Public Health Modeling Concentration; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Ecology
    • Immunization
    • Paratyphoid Fever
    • Rotavirus
    • Typhoid Fever
    • Global Health
  • John Rodman Paul Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Parasitic Diseases
    • Tropical Medicine
    • Trypanosomiasis, African
    • Genomics
    • RNA Interference
  • Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Affiliate Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Arbovirus Infections
    • Dengue
    • Tick-Borne Diseases
    • Coinfection
    • Zika Virus Infection
    • Vector Borne Diseases
  • Associate Professor Tenure; Co-director, Public Health Modeling Concentration; 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

Secondary & Adjunct Faculty