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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.

Effectiveness of early antiretroviral therapy initiation to improve survival among HIV-infected adults with tuberculosis: a retrospective cohort study.
Authors: Authors: Franke MF, Robins JM, Mugabo J, Kaigamba F, Cain LE, Fleming JG, Murray MB.
PLoS Med
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Diabetes mellitus and tuberculosis in countries with high tuberculosis burdens: individual risks and social determinants.
Authors: Authors: Goldhaber-Fiebert JD, Jeon CY, Cohen T, Murray MB.
Int J Epidemiol
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Spontaneous emergence of multiple drug resistance in tuberculosis before and during therapy.
Authors: Authors: Colijn C, Cohen T, Ganesh A, Murray M.
PLoS One
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Tuberculosis burden in households of patients with multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis: a retrospective cohort study.
Authors: Authors: Becerra MC, Appleton SC, Franke MF, Chalco K, Arteaga F, Bayona J, Murray M, Atwood SS, Mitnick CD.
Lancet
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Use of fluoroquinolone antibiotics leads to tuberculosis treatment delay in a South African gold mining community.
Authors: Authors: Jeon CY, Calver AD, Victor TC, Warren RM, Shin SS, Murray MB.
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis
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Mixed-strain Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections among patients dying in a hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Authors: Authors: Cohen T, Wilson D, Wallengren K, Samuel EY, Murray M.
J Clin Microbiol
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Role of ferroportin in macrophage-mediated immunity.
Authors: Authors: Johnson EE, Sandgren A, Cherayil BJ, Murray M, Wessling-Resnick M.
Infect Immun
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Consultation meeting on tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus: meeting summary and recommendations.
Authors: Authors: Ottmani SE, Murray MB, Jeon CY, Baker MA, Kapur A, Lönnroth K, Harries AD.
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis
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Bi-directional screening for tuberculosis and diabetes: a systematic review.
Authors: Authors: Jeon CY, Harries AD, Baker MA, Hart JE, Kapur A, Lönnroth K, Ottmani SE, Goonesekera S, Murray MB.
Trop Med Int Health
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Adjustment for missing data in complex surveys using doubly robust estimation: application to commercial sexual contact among Indian men.
Authors: Authors: Wirth KE, Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ, Murray M.
Epidemiology
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