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Megan Murray, M.D., Sc.D.

Ronda Stryker and William Johnston Professor of Global Health, Harvard Medical School
Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Associate Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Director of Research, Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
617-432-2781

MeganMurray, MD, MPH, ScD is an epidemiologist and an infectious disease physician with over 25 years of experience in the management of TB programs and TB epidemiology, as well as the transmission dynamics of emerging infectious diseases. She is a Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where she leads the Global Health Research Core, a multidisciplinary group of researchers who work with the Global Health Delivery Partnership faculty and staff to develop its mission to link research to the teaching and service activities of the Partnership. She is also a Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health and the Director of Research at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of Global Health Equity and its sister organization, Partners In Health.  Dr. Murray has conducted field studies in Peru, Rwanda, South Africa, Ukraine, Russia and the US, and has previously worked in Kenya, Niger and Pakistan. Her current interests include identifying ways to reduce the suffering caused by the health impacts of climate change, especially in low and middle income countries.

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Alternative email address: mmurray@hsph.harvard.edu

Dr. Murray’s research focuses on host and pathogen specific determinants of TB infection, disease and treatment outcomes. Much of her research is done in collaboration with the non-governmental organization Partners in Health and its Peru-based sister organization Socios en Salud. The joint team uses bacterial and human genetic and genomic tools to identify variants of interest and to understand the mechanisms of their interactions.

In addition to her work in Peru, Dr. Murray has conducted field studies in South Africa, Russia, the US, India, Indonesia, Sierra Leone, Pakistan, Niger and Rwanda. She serves as an editor for PLoS Medicine and for the European Journal of Epidemiology. She is currently a member of the Mass Consortium for Pathogen Readiness leadership team as well as Harvard University’s Covid Monitoring Committee. She has also served on numerous other committees, including the WHO’s TB-STAG, the Stop TB MDR Working Group, Harvard University Human Subjects Committee, the University’s Pandemic Flu Advisory Committee, the Institute of Medicine committee on Gulf War and Infectious Diseases, and multiple NIH study sections.

Prediction Tool to Identify Children at Highest Risk of Tuberculosis Disease Progression Among Those Exposed at Home.
Authors: Authors: Brooks MB, Lecca L, Contreras C, Calderon R, Yataco R, Galea J, Huang CC, Murray MB, Becerra MC.
Open Forum Infect Dis
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Smoking Cessation in Tuberculosis Patients and the Risk of Tuberculosis Infection in Child Household Contacts.
Authors: Authors: Chu AL, Lecca LW, Calderón RI, Contreras CC, Yataco RM, Zhang Z, Becerra MC, Murray MB, Huang CC.
Clin Infect Dis
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A sex-specific evolutionary interaction between ADCY9 and CETP.
Authors: Authors: Gamache I, Legault MA, Grenier JC, Sanchez R, Rhéaume E, Asgari S, Barhdadi A, Zada YF, Trochet H, Luo Y, Lecca L, Murray M, Raychaudhuri S, Tardif JC, Dubé MP, Hussin J.
Elife
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Syndromic surveillance using monthly aggregate health systems information data: methods with application to COVID-19 in Liberia.
Authors: Authors: Fulcher IR, Boley EJ, Gopaluni A, Varney PF, Barnhart DA, Kulikowski N, Mugunga JC, Murray M, Law MR, Hedt-Gauthier B.
Int J Epidemiol
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Characterization of Drug-Resistant Lipid-Dependent Differentially Detectable Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Authors: Authors: Mesman AW, Baek SH, Huang CC, Kim YM, Cho SN, Ioerger TR, Barreda NN, Calderon R, Sassetti CM, Murray MB.
J Clin Med
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Shoe Leather Infectious Disease Modeling?
Authors: Authors: Murray MB.
Clin Infect Dis
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Multimodally profiling memory T cells from a tuberculosis cohort identifies cell state associations with demographics, environment and disease.
Authors: Authors: Nathan A, Beynor JI, Baglaenko Y, Suliman S, Ishigaki K, Asgari S, Huang CC, Luo Y, Zhang Z, Lopez K, Lindestam Arlehamn CS, Ernst JD, Jimenez J, Calderón RI, Lecca L, Van Rhijn I, Moody DB, Murray MB, Raychaudhuri S.
Nat Immunol
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One hundred thirty-three observed COVID-19 deaths in 10 months: unpacking lower than predicted mortality in Rwanda.
Authors: Authors: Musanabaganwa C, Cubaka V, Mpabuka E, Semakula M, Nahayo E, Hedt-Gauthier BL, Ng KCS, Murray MB, Kateera F, Mutesa L, Nsanzimana S.
BMJ Glob Health
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SARS-CoV-2 serosurveys in low-income and middle-income countries.
Authors: Authors: Mugunga JC, Tyagi K, Bernal-Serrano D, Correa N, Iberico M, Kateera F, Leandre F, Murray M, Suffrin JCD, Hedt-Gauthier B.
Lancet
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Synthetic mycobacterial diacyl trehaloses reveal differential recognition by human T cell receptors and the C-type lectin Mincle.
Authors: Authors: Reijneveld JF, Holzheimer M, Young DC, Lopez K, Suliman S, Jimenez J, Calderon R, Lecca L, Murray MB, Ishikawa E, Yamasaki S, Minnaard AJ, Moody DB, Van Rhijn I.
Sci Rep
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