Dr. McQuade is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health. Her training is in infectious disease epidemiology and her research interests are in pediatric enteric disease in low-resource settings. Specifically, she focuses on the complex interactions between early childhood diarrhea, enteric infections, environmental enteropathy, antibiotic use, and their effects on child health and development. She also studies the impact of enteric vaccines and strategies to optimize antibiotic treatment for diarrhea.
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Areas of Interest
- Antibiotic Resistance
- Causal Inference
- Diarrheal and Enteric Diseases
- Epidemiology
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Maternal and Child Health
- Safe Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
- Vaccines
Education
- PhD 2015, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
- MSPH 2012, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
- BS 2010, Emory University
Courses Taught
- EPI 569: Concepts & Methods in ID EPI