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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.

Reassessment of the 2010-2011 Haiti cholera outbreak and rainfall-driven multiseason projections.
Authors: Authors: Rinaldo A, Bertuzzo E, Mari L, Righetto L, Blokesch M, Gatto M, Casagrandi R, Murray M, Vesenbeckh SM, Rodriguez-Iturbe I.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
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Polymorphisms in the gene that encodes the iron transport protein ferroportin 1 influence susceptibility to tuberculosis.
Authors: Authors: Baker MA, Wilson D, Wallengren K, Sandgren A, Iartchouk O, Broodie N, Goonesekera SD, Sabeti PC, Murray MB.
J Infect Dis
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The risk of tuberculosis disease among persons with diabetes mellitus: a prospective cohort study.
Authors: Authors: Baker MA, Lin HH, Chang HY, Murray MB.
Clin Infect Dis
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Excellent clinical outcomes and high retention in care among adults in a community-based HIV treatment program in rural Rwanda.
Authors: Authors: Rich ML, Miller AC, Niyigena P, Franke MF, Niyonzima JB, Socci A, Drobac PC, Hakizamungu M, Mayfield A, Ruhayisha R, Epino H, Stulac S, Cancedda C, Karamaga A, Niyonzima S, Yarbrough C, Fleming J, Amoroso C, Mukherjee J, Murray M, Farmer P, Binagwaho A.
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr
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Cholera ante portas - The re-emergence of cholera in Kinshasa after a ten-year hiatus.
Authors: Authors: Bompangue D, Vesenbeckh SM, Giraudoux P, Castro M, Muyembe JJ, Kebela Ilunga B, Murray M.
PLoS Curr
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Population health impact and cost-effectiveness of tuberculosis diagnosis with Xpert MTB/RIF: a dynamic simulation and economic evaluation.
Authors: Authors: Menzies NA, Cohen T, Lin HH, Murray M, Salomon JA.
PLoS Med
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Towards universal health coverage: an evaluation of Rwanda Mutuelles in its first eight years.
Authors: Authors: Lu C, Chin B, Lewandowski JL, Basinga P, Hirschhorn LR, Hill K, Murray M, Binagwaho A.
PLoS One
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Tuberculosis and poverty: why are the poor at greater risk in India?
Authors: Authors: Oxlade O, Murray M.
PLoS One
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Independent large scale duplications in multiple M. tuberculosis lineages overlapping the same genomic region.
Authors: Authors: Weiner B, Gomez J, Victor TC, Warren RM, Sloutsky A, Plikaytis BB, Posey JE, van Helden PD, Gey van Pittius NC, Koehrsen M, Sisk P, Stolte C, White J, Gagneux S, Birren B, Hung D, Murray M, Galagan J.
PLoS One
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A comparative lipidomics platform for chemotaxonomic analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Authors: Authors: Layre E, Sweet L, Hong S, Madigan CA, Desjardins D, Young DC, Cheng TY, Annand JW, Kim K, Shamputa IC, McConnell MJ, Debono CA, Behar SM, Minnaard AJ, Murray M, Barry CE, Matsunaga I, Moody DB.
Chem Biol
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