Megan Murray

Megan Murray, ScD, MD

Ronda Stryker and William Johnston Professor of Global Health, Harvard Medical School

Director of Research, Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

617-432-2781

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Dr. Murray is professor of global health and social medicine in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and associate professor of medicine in the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and professor of epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Murray directs the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine Research Core; she is also director of research for the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Affiliations:

Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Associate member, Broad Institute

Address:

Department of Global Health and Social Medicine

641 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02115

Alternative email address: mmurray@hsph.harvard.edu

COVID-19 preparedness in Malawi: a national facility-based critical care assessment.

Authors: Authors: Sonenthal PD, Masiye J, Kasomekera N, Marsh RH, Wroe EB, Scott KW, Li R, Murray MB, Bukhman A, Connolly E, Minyaliwa T, Katete M, Banda G, Nyirenda M, Rouhani SA.
Lancet Glob Health 2020-07-01
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Isoniazid Preventive Therapy in Contacts of Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis.

Authors: Authors: Huang CC, Becerra MC, Calderon R, Contreras C, Galea J, Grandjean L, Lecca L, Yataco R, Zhang Z, Murray M.
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2020-06-17
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A positively selected FBN1 missense variant reduces height in Peruvian individuals.

Authors: Authors: Asgari S, Luo Y, Akbari A, Belbin GM, Li X, Harris DN, Selig M, Bartell E, Calderon R, Slowikowski K, Contreras C, Yataco R, Galea JT, Jimenez J, Coit JM, Farroñay C, Nazarian RM, O'Connor TD, Dietz HC, Hirschhorn JN, Guio H, Lecca L, Kenny EE, Freeman EE, Murray MB, Raychaudhuri S.
Nature 2020-06-01
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RISK6, a 6-gene transcriptomic signature of TB disease risk, diagnosis and treatment response.

Authors: Authors: Penn-Nicholson A, Mbandi SK, Thompson E, Mendelsohn SC, Suliman S, Chegou NN, Malherbe ST, Darboe F, Erasmus M, Hanekom WA, Bilek N, Fisher M, Kaufmann SHE, Winter J, Murphy M, Wood R, Morrow C, Van Rhijn I, Moody B, Murray M, Andrade BB, Sterling TR, Sutherland J, Naidoo K, Padayatchi N, Walzl G, Hatherill M, Zak D, Scriba TJ.
Sci Rep 2020-05-25
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Estimated Demand for US Hospital Inpatient and Intensive Care Unit Beds for Patients With COVID-19 Based on Comparisons With Wuhan and Guangzhou, China.

Authors: Authors: Li R, Rivers C, Tan Q, Murray MB, Toner E, Lipsitch M.
JAMA Netw Open 2020-05-01
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Peripheral blood mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells in tuberculosis patients and healthy Mycobacterium tuberculosis-exposed controls.

Authors: Authors: Suliman S, Gela A, Mendelsohn SC, Iwany SK, Tamara KL, Mabwe S, Bilek N, Darboe F, Fisher M, Corbett AJ, Kjer-Nielsen L, Eckle SBG, Huang CC, Zhang Z, Lewinsohn DM, McCluskey J, Rossjohn J, Hatherill M, León SR, Calderon RI, Lecca L, Murray M, Scriba TJ, Van Rhijn I, Moody DB.
J Infect Dis 2020-04-08
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A Benchtop Automated Sputum-to-Genotype System Using a Lab-on-a-Film Assembly for Detection of Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Authors: Authors: Kukhtin AV, Norville R, Bueno A, Qu P, Parrish N, Murray M, Chandler DP, Holmberg RC, Cooney CG.
Anal Chem 2020-04-07
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The demand for inpatient and ICU beds for COVID-19 in the US: lessons from Chinese cities.

Authors: Authors: Li R, Rivers C, Tan Q, Murray MB, Toner E, Lipsitch M.
medRxiv 2020-03-16
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing Lineage and Risk for Tuberculosis in Child Household Contacts, Peru.

Authors: Authors: Huang CC, Chu AL, Becerra MC, Galea JT, Calderón R, Contreras C, Yataco R, Zhang Z, Lecca L, Murray MB.
Emerg Infect Dis 2020-03-01
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Patients' perspectives of tuberculosis treatment challenges and barriers to treatment adherence in Ukraine: a qualitative study.

Authors: Authors: Aibana O, Dauria E, Kiriazova T, Makarenko O, Bachmaha M, Rybak N, Flanigan TP, Petrenko V, Becker AE, Murray MB.
BMJ Open 2020-02-02
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