
Sydney is a doctoral candidate in the Environmental Health Sciences program in the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health at Emory University. She worked as an Epidemiologist across a variety of settings and sectors broadly in infectious disease surveillance prior to returning to Emory in 2018 to pursue her doctorate. It was her work at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on a health impact evaluation of a water and sanitation (WASH) intervention in Lusaka, Zambia, that specifically led her to return to Emory to gain further training in WASH research and the environmental determinants of infectious disease. Her dissertation research focuses on the impact of weather on WASH interventions with a focus on a WASH intervention in a climate-vulnerable, coastal setting in Mozambique. She is a current research fellow in the Center for Global Safe Water and a former fellow in the Atlanta Science Communication Fellowship program. Within her department, she serves as the student co-chair of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Steering Committee.
Areas of Interest
- Diarrheal and Enteric Diseases
- Environmental Health
- Epidemiology
- Evaluation
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Safe Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
- Spatial Analysis/GIS
Education
- BS 2009, The University of Dayton
- MPH 2011, Emory University
Publications
- Wolf J, Hubbard S, Brauer M, Ambelu A, Arnold BF, Bain R, Bauza V, Brown J, Caruso BA, Clasen T, Colford JM Jr, Freeman MC, Gordon B, Johnston RB, Mertens A, Prüss-Ustün A, Ross I, Stanaway J, Zhao JT, Cumming O, Boisson S. , 2022, Effectiveness of interventions to improve drinking water, sanitation, and handwashing with soap on risk of diarrhoeal disease in children in low-income and middle-income settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis., Lancet, 400, 48-59
- Delahoy MJ, Hubbard S, Mattioli M, Culquichicón C, Knee J, Brown J, Cabrera L, Barr DB, Ryan PB, Lescano AG, Gilman RH, Levy K. , 2022, High prevalence of chemical and microbiological drinking water contaminants in households with infants enrolled in a birth cohort — Piura, Peru, 2016., Am J Trop Med, ,
- Victor C, Vega Ocasio D, Cumbe ZA, Garn JV, Hubbard S, Mangamela M, McGunegill S, Nalá R, Snyder JS, Levy K, Freeman MC. , 2022, Spatial heterogeneity of neighborhood-level water and sanitation access in informal urban settlements: a cross-sectional case study in Beira, Mozambique., PLOS Water, 1,
- Sydney C. Hubbard, Martin I. Meltzer, Sunkyung Kim, Warren Malambo, Andrew T. Thornton, Manjunath B. Shankar, Bishwa B. Adhikari, Seonghye Jeon, Valerie D. Bampoe, Lauren Cunningham, Jennifer Murphy, Tracy Ayers, Gordana Derado, Eric Mintz, Florence K. Mwale, Elizabeth Chizema, Joan M. Brunkard., 2020, Household illness and the associated water and sanitation factors in peri-urban Lusaka, Zambia, 2016-2017. , npj Clean Water, 3,
- Sinyange N, Brunkard JM, Kapata N, et al. Hubbard SC, 2018, Cholera Epidemic — Lusaka, Zambia, October 2017–May 2018., MMWR Morbidity Mortality Weekly Report, , 556–559
- Isaac See, Julia Chang, Nicole Gualandi, Genevieve L. Buser, Pamela Rohrbach, Debra A. Smeltz, Mary Jo Bellush, Susan E. Coffin, Jane M. Gould, Debra Hess, Patricia Hennessey, Sydney Hubbard, Andrea Kiernan, Judith O’Donnell, David A. Pegues, Jeffrey R. Miller and Shelley S. Magill, 2016, Clinical Correlates of Surveillance Events Detected by National Healthcare Safety Network Pneumonia and Lower Respiratory Infection Definitions—Pennsylvania, 2011–2012., Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol., 37, 818-24
- Samuel Bosomprah, Lauren B. Beach, Laura K. Beres, Jonathan Newman, Kabwe Kapasa, Cheryl Rudd, Lungowe Njobvu, Brad Guffey, Sydney Hubbard, Karen Foo, Carolyn Bolton-Moore, Jeffrey Stringer and Roma Chilengi, 2016, Findings from a comprehensive diarrhea prevention and treatment programme in Lusaka, Zambia., BMC Public Health, 16,
- Debra L. Palazzi MD, Antonio Arrieta MD, Elio Castagnola MD, Natasha Halasa MD MPH, Sydney Hubbard MPH, Ava A. Brozovich MPH, Brian T. Fisher DO MSCE, William J. Steinbach MD, 2014, Candida Speciation, Antifungal Treatment, and Adverse Events in Pediatric Invasive Candidiasis: Results from 441 Infections in a Prospective, Multi-National Study., Pediatr Infect Dis J, 33,
- Bradley D. Pearce, Sydney Hubbard, Hilda N. Rivera, Patricia P. Wilkins, Marylynn C. Fisch, Myfanwy H. Hopkins, Wendy Hasenkamp, Robin Gross, Nancy Bliwise, Jeffrey L. Jones, Erica Duncan, 2013, Toxoplasma gondii exposure affects neural processing speed as measured by acoustic startle latency in schizophrenia and controls., Schizophrenia Research, 150, 258-61