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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.

How consistent are associations between stunting and child development? Evidence from a meta-analysis of associations between stunting and multidimensional child development in fifteen low- and middle-income countries.
Authors: Authors: Miller AC, Murray MB, Thomson DR, Arbour MC.
Public Health Nutr
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Gyrase Mutations Are Associated with Variable Levels of Fluoroquinolone Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Authors: Authors: Farhat MR, Jacobson KR, Franke MF, Kaur D, Sloutsky A, Mitnick CD, Murray M.
J Clin Microbiol
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Performance of the GeneXpert Ebola Assay for Diagnosis of Ebola Virus Disease in Sierra Leone: A Field Evaluation Study.
Authors: Authors: Semper AE, Broadhurst MJ, Richards J, Foster GM, Simpson AJ, Logue CH, Kelly JD, Miller A, Brooks TJ, Murray M, Pollock NR.
PLoS Med
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Impact of HIV on mortality among patients treated for tuberculosis in Lima, Peru: a prospective cohort study.
Authors: Authors: Velásquez GE, Cegielski JP, Murray MB, Yagui MJ, Asencios LL, Bayona JN, Bonilla CA, Jave HO, Yale G, Suárez CZ, Sanchez E, Rojas C, Atwood SS, Contreras CC, Santa Cruz J, Shin SS.
BMC Infect Dis
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Identifying Hotspots of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Transmission Using Spatial and Molecular Genetic Data.
Authors: Authors: Zelner JL, Murray MB, Becerra MC, Galea J, Lecca L, Calderon R, Yataco R, Contreras C, Zhang Z, Manjourides J, Grenfell BT, Cohen T.
J Infect Dis
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Acquired and Transmitted Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis: The Role of Social Determinants.
Authors: Authors: Odone A, Calderon R, Becerra MC, Zhang Z, Contreras CC, Yataco R, Galea J, Lecca L, Bonds MH, Mitnick CD, Murray MB.
PLoS One
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Nutritional Status and Tuberculosis Risk in Adult and Pediatric Household Contacts.
Authors: Authors: Aibana O, Acharya X, Huang CC, Becerra MC, Galea JT, Chiang SS, Contreras C, Calderon R, Yataco R, Velásquez GE, Tintaya K, Jimenez J, Lecca L, Murray MB.
PLoS One
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Time From Infection to Disease and Infectiousness for Ebola Virus Disease, a Systematic Review.
Authors: Authors: Velásquez GE, Aibana O, Ling EJ, Diakite I, Mooring EQ, Murray MB.
Clin Infect Dis
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ReEBOV Antigen Rapid Test kit for point-of-care and laboratory-based testing for Ebola virus disease: a field validation study.
Authors: Authors: Broadhurst MJ, Kelly JD, Miller A, Semper A, Bailey D, Groppelli E, Simpson A, Brooks T, Hula S, Nyoni W, Sankoh AB, Kanu S, Jalloh A, Ton Q, Sarchet N, George P, Perkins MD, Wonderly B, Murray M, Pollock NR.
Lancet
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The epidemiological advantage of preferential targeting of tuberculosis control at the poor.
Authors: Authors: Andrews JR, Basu S, Dowdy DW, Murray MB.
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis
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