Infectious Diseases

Infectious disease research drives innovation in vaccines and intervention strategies, safeguarding global health against evolving threats like pandemics, antibiotic resistance, and emerging pathogens. Our research stretches from rural Minnesota, where we explore chlamydia infection risk factors and interventions, to West Africa, where we’re studying Ebola’s long-term effects on survivors’ DNA.

Faculty List
Jeff Bender
Jeff Bender, DVM, MS
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Food and Nutrition ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Infectious Diseases
Biyue Dai
Biyue Dai, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Infectious Diseases
Horacio Duarte
Horacio Duarte, MD, MS
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Global Health ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Infectious Diseases
Eva Enns
Eva Enns, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Global Health ◦ Infectious Diseases
Melanie Firestone
Melanie Firestone, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Food and Nutrition ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Infectious Diseases
Craig Hedberg
Craig W. Hedberg, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Food and Nutrition ◦ Infectious Diseases
Byeonghwa Jeon
Byeonghwa Jeon, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Food and Nutrition ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Infectious Diseases
Shalini Kulasingam
Shalini Kulasingam, PhD, MPH
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Cancer ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Global Health ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Infectious Diseases ◦ Mothers, Children, and Families
George Maldonado
George Maldonado, PhD, MSPH
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Infectious Diseases ◦ Mental Health and Cognition
Claudia Muoz-Zanzi
Claudia Muñoz-Zanzi, DVM, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Global Health ◦ Infectious Diseases
Thomas Murray
Thomas Murray, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Infectious Diseases ◦ Mental Health and Cognition
Heather Nelson
Heather Hammond Nelson, PhD, MPH
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Cancer ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Infectious Diseases
Jonathan Oliver
Jonathan Oliver, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Infectious Diseases
Michael Osterholm
Michael T. Osterholm, PhD
Regents Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Global Health ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Infectious Diseases
Tess Peterson
Tess Peterson, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Aging ◦ Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Global Health ◦ Infectious Diseases
Melinda Pettigrew
Melinda Pettigrew, PhD
Dean
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Specialty Areas:
Global Health ◦ Infectious Diseases
Peter Raynor
Peter Raynor, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Infectious Diseases
Reilly Cavan
Cavan S. Reilly, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Global Health ◦ Infectious Diseases
B.R. Simon Rosser
B.R. Simon Rosser, PhD, MPH
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Aging ◦ Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Cancer ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Global Health ◦ Infectious Diseases ◦ Mental Health and Cognition ◦ Substance Use
Kelly Seaerle
Kelly Searle, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Global Health ◦ Infectious Diseases
Kumi Smith
M. Kumi Smith, PhD
Associate Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Antiracism and Health Equity ◦ Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Infectious Diseases ◦ Substance Use
Gillian Tarr
Gillian Tarr, PhD, CPH
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Environment and Hazardous Exposures ◦ Food and Nutrition ◦ Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics ◦ Global Health ◦ Infectious Diseases
Steffen Ventz
Steffen Ventz, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Cancer ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Infectious Diseases
Julian Wolfson
Julian Wolfson, PhD
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Chronic Disease Causes and Prevention ◦ Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Food and Nutrition ◦ Infectious Diseases
Rebecca Wurtz
Rebecca Wurtz, MD, MPH
Professor
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Specialty Areas:
Data Science and Research Methods ◦ Global Health ◦ Health Policy, Systems, and Management ◦ Infectious Diseases