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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

Megan Murray, 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.

Address: 
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
641 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115

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.

Depression, adherence and attrition from care in HIV-infected adults receiving antiretroviral therapy.
Authors: Authors: Krumme AA, Kaigamba F, Binagwaho A, Murray MB, Rich ML, Franke MF.
J Epidemiol Community Health
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Effectiveness of reactive oral cholera vaccination in rural Haiti: a case-control study and bias-indicator analysis.
Authors: Authors: Ivers LC, Hilaire IJ, Teng JE, Almazor CP, Jerome JG, Ternier R, Boncy J, Buteau J, Murray MB, Harris JB, Franke MF.
Lancet Glob Health
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Modelling challenges in context: lessons from malaria, HIV, and tuberculosis.
Authors: Authors: Childs LM, Abuelezam NN, Dye C, Gupta S, Murray MB, Williams BG, Buckee CO.
Epidemics
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Estimating the Impact of Reducing Under-Nutrition on the Tuberculosis Epidemic in the Central Eastern States of India: A Dynamic Modeling Study.
Authors: Authors: Oxlade O, Huang CC, Murray M.
PLoS One
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Effect of empirical treatment on outcomes of clinical trials of diagnostic assays for tuberculosis.
Authors: Authors: Menzies NA, Cohen T, Murray M, Salomon JA.
Lancet Infect Dis
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Age-specific risks of tuberculosis infection from household and community exposures and opportunities for interventions in a high-burden setting.
Authors: Authors: Zelner JL, Murray MB, Becerra MC, Galea J, Lecca L, Calderon R, Yataco R, Contreras C, Zhang Z, Grenfell BT, Cohen T.
Am J Epidemiol
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Assessment of the patient, health system, and population effects of Xpert MTB/RIF and alternative diagnostics for tuberculosis in Tanzania: an integrated modelling approach.
Authors: Authors: Langley I, Lin HH, Egwaga S, Doulla B, Ku CC, Murray M, Cohen T, Squire SB.
Lancet Glob Health
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Global control of tuberculosis: from extensively drug-resistant to untreatable tuberculosis.
Authors: Authors: Dheda K, Gumbo T, Gandhi NR, Murray M, Theron G, Udwadia Z, Migliori GB, Warren R.
Lancet Respir Med
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Poverty, disease, and the ecology of complex systems.
Authors: Authors: Ngonghala CN, Plucinski MM, Murray MB, Farmer PE, Barrett CB, Keenan DC, Bonds MH.
PLoS Biol
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Bacillus Calmette-Guérin and isoniazid preventive therapy protect contacts of patients with tuberculosis.
Authors: Authors: Zelner JL, Murray MB, Becerra MC, Galea J, Lecca L, Calderon R, Yataco R, Contreras C, Zhang Z, Grenfell BT, Cohen T.
Am J Respir Crit Care Med
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