Our Team

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

  • David Larsen, PhD, MPH

    LEAD EPIDEMIOLOGIST & PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

  • Mila Neyra, MPH

    PROGRAM DIRECTOR

  • Nicole Pulido, MPH

    RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

  • Joe Moran, MSc

    RESEARCH ASSOCIATE - EPIDEMIOLOGIST

  • Christopher Dunham, MS

    DATA SCIENTIST

  • Dustin Hill, PhD

    EPIDEMIOLOGIST & POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER

  • Edem Fiatsonu, PhD

    POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER

  • Brittany Kmush, PhD

    EPIDEMIOLOGIST

  • Yasir Ahmed-Braimah, PhD

    BIOINFORMATICIAN

  • Teng Zeng, PhD

    ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER

  • Bhavneet Walia, PhD

    APPLIED HEALTH AND LABOR ECONOMETRICIAN

  • Bernard Appiah, DrPH

    RESEARCH PROGRAM DIRECTOR, H-COPE

  • Chinyere Ifeanacho

    GRADUATE STUDENT

  • Ozi Nwabor

    GRADUATE STUDENT

  • Jordan McGuire

    UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT

  • Roma Agarwal

    UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT

  • Ella CiCola

    UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT

  • Benedicta Owusu

    UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT

NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH (NYSDOH)

  • Daniel Lang, PG

    DEPUTY DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

  • Sylvia Byun, PhD, MPH

    DEPUTY DIRECTOR, QI PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

  • Kathleen Bush, PhD

    DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC OPERATIONS, CEH

  • Haley R. Kappus-Kron, MPH

    PROGRAM RESEARCH SPECIALIST III

  • Shaz Damani, MPH

    PROGRAM RESEARCH SPECIALIST III

  • Paul Dougall, MA, MS

    PROGRAM RESEARCH SPECIALIST II

  • Samantha Long, MS

    EVALUATION SPECIALIST I

  • Alex Espinoza, MPH

    EPIDEMIOLOGIST (CDC Foundation)

  • Dana Neigel, MPH

    EPIDEMIOLOGIST (CDC Foundation)

  • Shailla Raymond, MPH

    EPIDEMIOLOGIST (CDC Foundation)

  • Cherina Cheng

    PUBLIC HEALTH FELLOW II

  • Gena Gallinger, MS

    DIRECTOR, CEH OUTREACH AND EDUCATION GROUP

  • Stephanie Facchine

    HEALTH EDUCATION MEDIA SPECIALIST III

  • Akhila Thota

WADSWORTH CENTER (NYSDOH)

  • Leonard F. Peruski, PhD, MSc

    DIRECTOR, WADSWORTH CENTER

  • James Chithalen, PhD

    DEPUTY DIRECTOR, WADSWORTH CENTER

  • Kirsten St. George, PhD

    CHIEF, VIRAL DISEASES; DIRECTOR, VIROLOGY LABORATORY

  • Kimberlee A. Musser, PhD

    CLINICAL DIRECTOR, BACTERIOLOGY LABORATORY

  • Sudha Chaturvedi, PhD

    DIRECTOR, MYCOLOGY LABORATORY

  • Kathleen A. McDonough, PhD

    DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE

  • Christina Egan, PhD

    DEPUTY DIRECTOR, DIVISION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE

  • Siân Owen, PhD

    BACTERIOPHAGES & MOBILE GENETIC ELEMENTS

  • Kara Mitchell, PhD

    DIRECTOR, BACTERIAL REFERENCE AND SPECIAL PROJECTS

  • Daryl M. Lamson, MT (ASCP)

    ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, VIROLOGY

  • Patrick Bryant, PhD

    DIRECTOR, VACCINE PREVENTABLE DISEASES

  • Jennifer Laplante

    DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS, LABORATORY OF VIRAL DISEASES; TEAM LEAD, INFLUENZA SEQUENCING AND ANTIVIRAL RESISTANCE

  • Lindsey Rickerman, MS

    RESEARCH SCIENTIST II, BIOINFORMATICS

  • Monica Foote, PhD

    DIRECTOR, WASTEWATER PROCESSING LABORATORY

  • Jonathan Plitnick, MA

    LABORATORY MANAGER, WASTEWATER PROCESSING LABORATORY

  • Aishwwarya Jadhav, MS

    RESEARCH SCIENTIST

  • Latavia Hill, PhD

    RESEARCH SCIENTIST

  • Sonali Biswas, MS

    RESEARCH SCIENTIST

STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY

  • Christopher J. Gobler, PhD

    PROFESSOR

  • Mian Wang, PhD

    POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE

  • Ruth Drinkwater

  • Max Fishlow

SUNY COLLEGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & FORESTRY (ESF)

  • Hyatt Green, PhD

    ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGIST

NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE

  • Ravi Sachidanandam, PhD

    DIRECTOR, GENOMICS CORE LAB

  • Salomon Amar, DDS, PhD

  • Deepali Lehri, Phd

    POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW

SUNY UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

  • Donald A. Yergeau, PhD

    ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF GENOMIC TECHNOLOGIES

  • Jennifer A. Surtees, PhD

    CO-DIRECTOR OF UB’S GENOME, ENVIRONMENTAL AND MICROBIOME COMMUNITY OF EXCELLENCE

  • Alyssa Pohlman

    RESEARCH TECHNICIAN

SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

  • Frank Middleton, PhD

    SCIENTIFIC DIRECTOR OF SUNY MOLECULAR ANALYSIS CORE

  • Karen Gentile, MS

    TECHNICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR OF SUNY MOLECULAR ANALYSIS CORE

  • Rafael Schulman

    MD/PhD CANDIDATE

UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER

  • Dwight J. Hardy, PhD

    DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

  • Andrew Cameron, PhD

    ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

  • Timothy Stoklosa