UQCCR Seminar Series with Dr Karen Hamre

Dr. Karen Hamre is an Epidemiologist for The Carter Center’s Hispaniola Initiative, which assists the Ministries of Health in the Dominican Republic and Haiti to eliminate lymphatic filariasis and malaria from their shared island. She is a Co-PI along with Professor Colleen Lau on the recently awarded Emory University-University of Queensland Collaborative Partnership Research Grant entitled, Spatial and Immunoepidemiologic Methods for Evaluating the Risk of Residual Lymphatic Filariasis Transmission from Two Integrated Serosurveillance Studies in the Dominican Republic. She arrived at the Center with nearly a decade of experience working in malaria, including relevant work at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, and the University of Minnesota where she worked in partnership with collaborators at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) in Kisumu, Kenya and Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. Dr. Hamre holds an adjunct faculty appointment in the Department of Epidemiology at Emory University Rollins School of Public Health and serves on the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (ASTMH) Young Investigator Award Committee.