Inferring Infectious Disease Transmission Networks: Network Analysis and Molecular Epidemiology in Applied Public Health

Please join us for a talk by Dr. Dana Pasquale when she will: Demonstrate how sociosexual networks and pathogen genetic data can inform understanding of infectious transmission within a population Explain the implications of the limitations of these methods in inferring transmission networks Describe how social networks can exacerbate infections in social groups or protect social groups from infection, and how this can be leveraged for control Zoom Info https://duke.zoom.us/j/98073307522?pwd=TjBOMG1zOFNRZlM4blBBWDdvY0didz09 Meeting ID: 980 7330 7522 Passcode: 394085 About Our Speaker Dr. Pasquale is a postdoctoral researcher at Duke University in the Department of Sociology, working with Dr. James Moody. She combines social and pathogen genetic data to study infectious disease transmission networks. The majority of her work is applied and domestic, and she works closely with the health department to examine HIV and syphilis transmission in North Carolina. Dr. Pasquale recently started using clonal bacterial data, pathogen genetic data, and location information to study hospital-acquired Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales infections. She is the PI of Duke RDS2, a CDC-funded effort to locate active undiagnosed SARS-CoV-2 cases in Durham County. Dr. Pasquale has a PhD in infectious disease epidemiology from UNC-Chapel Hill and an MPH in health behavior from East Carolina University.