Joey Hunt is a 1st year PhD Student in the Epidemiology Department at the Rollins School of Public Health. Before Emory, she recieved a BA in Sociology with a minor in Medical Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Joey then received an Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIH/NIAID). As an IRTA Fellow, she worked in the International HIV/STI Section at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, employing molecular epidemiologic methods to evaluate infectious disease outcomes.
Areas of Interest
- Disease Surveillance
- Evaluation
- Health Disparities
- Infectious Disease
- Laboratory Science
- Public Health Practice
- Social Epidemiology
Education
- Bachelor of Arts 2022, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Publications
- Hunt, J. H., Laeyendecker, O., Rothman, R., Fernandez, R. E., Dashler, G., Caturegli, M., Hansoti, B., Quinn, T. C., Hsieh, Y., 2024, A novel screening strategy to identify presumed active syphilis infections in the urban emergency department setting, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 11,
- Epstein-Shuman, A., Hunt, J. H., Winguth, P., Fernandez, R. E., Roze, G. M., Zhu, X., DiRico, N. A., Jamal, A., Hsieh, Y., Manabe, Y. C., Redd, A. D., Reynolds, S. R., Antar, A. A. R., & Laeyendecker, O., 2024, Autoantibodies Directed Against Interferon Alpha, Nuclear Antigens, Cardiolipin, and Beta 2 Glycoprotein 1 Are Not Induced By SARS-CoV-2 or Associated with Long COVID, International Journal of Infectious Diseases, ,
- Sop, J., Traut, C., Dykema, A., Hunt, J. H., Becky, T., Basseth, C., Antar, A., Laeyendecker, O., Smith, K., Blankston, J., 2024, Bivalent mRNA COVID vaccines elicit predominantly cross-reactive CD4+ T cell clonotypes, Cell Reports Medicine, ,
- Hunt, J. H., Traut, C. C., Gebo, K. A., Hansoti, B., Jones, J.L., Hamill, M. M., Keller, S., Gilliams, E., Manabe, Y. C., Mostafa, H. H., Fernandez, R. E., Sanders, R. A., Cochran, W., Blankston, J.N., & Laeyendecker, O., 2024, Discordant performance of mpox serological assays, Journal of Virological Methods, 329,
- Hunt, J. H., Peay, H., Henderson, G. , 2024, Facilitators and barriers to adherence to anti-retroviral treatment among pregnant or breastfeeding women living with HIV and perinatally infected infants: A scoping review, AIDS and Behavior, ,
- Hunt, J. H., Mwinnyaa, G., Patel, E. U., Grabowski, M. K., Kagaayi, J., Gray, R. H., Ssekasanvu, J., Wawer, M. J., Kigozi, G., Chang, L. W., Kalibbala, S., Ndyanabo, A., Quinn, T. C., Serwadda, D., Reynolds, S. J., Galiwango, R., & Laeyendecker, O., 2023, Prevalence and Patterns in Indeterminate HIV Rapid Antibody Test Results: a Population-Based, Longitudinal Study, Microbiology Spectrum, ,