Megan Murray, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is an Instructor with both the DGHE and the Infectious Disease unit at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Murray's research group has the following major areas of interest:
- Within-species comparative genomics of M. tuberculosis strains,
- Modeling the transmission dynamics of emerging infectious diseases, including MDR-TB, West Nile virus, SARS, and various sexually transmitted diseases,
- Human iron metabolism and tuberculosis susceptibility,
- Identifying risk factors for the transmission of drug-sensitive and drug-resistant tuberculosis transmission using molecular and conventional epidemiologic methods,
- Outcomes research in tuberculosis treatment and control programs,
- Pedagogy in interdisciplinary research and emerging infectious disease, and
- Exhaled particles and their relationship to infectivity of infectious agents.
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