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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.

Comprehensive and integrated district health systems strengthening: the Rwanda Population Health Implementation and Training (PHIT) Partnership.
Authors: Authors: Drobac PC, Basinga P, Condo J, Farmer PE, Finnegan KE, Hamon JK, Amoroso C, Hirschhorn LR, Kakoma JB, Lu C, Murangwa Y, Murray M, Ngabo F, Rich M, Thomson D, Binagwaho A.
BMC Health Serv Res
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Exposure to secondhand smoke and risk of tuberculosis: prospective cohort study.
Authors: Authors: Lin HH, Chiang YT, Chuang JH, Yang SL, Chang HY, Ezzati M, Murray M.
PLoS One
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Tuberculosis and poverty: the contribution of patient costs in sub-Saharan Africa--a systematic review.
Authors: Authors: Barter DM, Agboola SO, Murray MB, Bärnighausen T.
BMC Public Health
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Adaptation of a web-based, open source electronic medical record system platform to support a large study of tuberculosis epidemiology.
Authors: Authors: Fraser HS, Thomas D, Tomaylla J, Garcia N, Lecca L, Murray M, Becerra MC.
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak
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Choosing the best child assessment instrument for a specific context: a methodology for engaging local experts applied in Chile.
Authors: Authors: Arbour M, Murray KA, Atwood SS, Murray M, Angel Cordero Vega M.
J Dev Behav Pediatr
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The impact of new tuberculosis diagnostics on transmission: why context matters.
Authors: Authors: Lin HH, Dowdy D, Dye C, Murray M, Cohen T.
Bull World Health Organ
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Managing tuberculosis in patients with diabetes mellitus: why we care and what we know.
Authors: Authors: Jeon CY, Murray MB, Baker MA.
Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther
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Modeling the dynamic relationship between HIV and the risk of drug-resistant tuberculosis.
Authors: Authors: Sergeev R, Colijn C, Murray M, Cohen T.
Sci Transl Med
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Clinical research and development of tuberculosis diagnostics: moving from silos to synergy.
Authors: Authors: Nahid P, Kim PS, Evans CA, Alland D, Barer M, Diefenbach J, Ellner J, Hafner R, Hamilton CD, Iademarco MF, Ireton G, Kimerling ME, Lienhardt C, MacKenzie WR, Murray M, Perkins MD, Posey JE, Roberts T, Sizemore C, Stevens WS, Via L, Williams SD, Yew WW, Swindells S.
J Infect Dis
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Risk factors associated with pulmonary tuberculosis: smoking, diabetes and anti-TNFa drugs.
Authors: Authors: Ferrara G, Murray M, Winthrop K, Centis R, Sotgiu G, Migliori GB, Maeurer M, Zumla A.
Curr Opin Pulm Med
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