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Megan Murray, ScD, MD

Ronda Stryker and William Johnston Professor of Global Health, Harvard Medical School
Director of Research, Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

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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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.

Integrating Health Systems and Science to Respond to COVID-19 in a Model District of Rural Madagascar.
Authors: Authors: Rakotonanahary RJL, Andriambolamanana H, Razafinjato B, Raza-Fanomezanjanahary EM, Ramanandraitsiory V, Ralaivavikoa F, Tsirinomen'ny Aina A, Rahajatiana L, Rakotonirina L, Haruna J, Cordier LF, Murray MB, Cowley G, Jordan D, Krasnow MA, Wright PC, Gillespie TR, Docherty M, Loyd T, Evans MV, Drake JM, Ngonghala CN, Rich ML, Popper SJ, Miller AC, Ihantamalala FA, Randrianambinina A, Ramiandrisoa B, Rakotozafy E, Rasolofomanana A, Rakotozafy G, Andriamahatana Vololoniaina MC, Andriamihaja B, Garchitorena A, Rakotonirina J, Mayfield A, Finnegan KE, Bonds MH.
Front Public Health
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Phase-3 Randomized Controlled Trials on Exclusion of Participants With Kidney Disease in COVID-19.
Authors: Authors: Chewcharat A, Chang YT, Sise ME, Bhattacharyya RP, Murray MB, Nigwekar SU.
Kidney Int Rep
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A public health intervention package for increasing tuberculosis notifications from private practitioners in Bandung, Indonesia (INSTEP2): A cluster-randomised controlled trial protocol.
Authors: Authors: Hadisoemarto PF, Lestari BW, Sharples K, Afifah N, Chaidir L, Huang CC, McAllister S, van Crevel R, Murray M, Alisjahbana B, Hill PC.
F1000Res
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Are neighbourhoods of tuberculosis cases a high-risk population for active intervention? A protocol for tuberculosis active case finding.
Authors: Authors: Alisjahbana B, Koesoemadinata RC, Hadisoemarto PF, Lestari BW, Hartati S, Chaidir L, Huang CC, Murray M, Hill PC, McAllister SM.
PLoS One
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District-level health system strengthening for universal health coverage: evidence from a longitudinal cohort study in rural Madagascar, 2014-2018.
Authors: Authors: Garchitorena A, Miller AC, Cordier LF, Randriamanambintsoa M, Razanadrakato HR, Randriamihaja M, Razafinjato B, Finnegan KE, Haruna J, Rakotonirina L, Rakotozafy G, Raharimamonjy L, Atwood S, Murray MB, Rich M, Loyd T, Solofomalala GD, Bonds MH.
BMJ Glob Health
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Detection of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis DNA in Buccal Swab Samples from Children in Lima, Peru.
Authors: Authors: Flores JA, Calderón R, Mesman AW, Soto M, Coit J, Aliaga J, Mendoza M, Leon SR, Konda K, Mestanza FM, Mendoza CJ, Lecca L, Murray MB, Holmberg RC, Pollock NR, Franke MF.
Pediatr Infect Dis J
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An Approach to Building Equitable Global Health Research Collaborations.
Authors: Authors: Murray M, Mubiligi J.
Ann Glob Health
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Metformin enhances protection in guinea pigs chronically infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Authors: Authors: Frenkel JDH, Ackart DF, Todd AK, DiLisio JE, Hoffman S, Tanner S, Kiran D, Murray M, Chicco A, Obregón-Henao A, Podell BK, Basaraba RJ.
Sci Rep
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Tuberculosis clinical presentation and treatment outcomes in pregnancy: a prospective cohort study.
Authors: Authors: van de Water BJ, Brooks MB, Huang CC, Trevisi L, Lecca L, Contreras C, Galea J, Calderon R, Yataco R, Murray M, Becerra MC.
BMC Infect Dis
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Children as sentinels of tuberculosis transmission: disease mapping of programmatic data.
Authors: Authors: Gunasekera KS, Zelner J, Becerra MC, Contreras C, Franke MF, Lecca L, Murray MB, Warren JL, Cohen T.
BMC Med
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