Media Expertise:
COVID response, contact tracing, vaccination, public health preparedness and practice, implementation science
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Bio
Dr. Chamberlain is an infectious disease epidemiologist with a background in biodefense, public health preparedness and public health practice. Her research interests are in preparedness, vaccine promotion, vaccine effectiveness and HIV prevention. She currently serves as co-PI of the Emory Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analytics Training Hub (CIDMATH).
Dr. Chamberlain is most passionate about connecting academics with state and local public health practitioners and leveraging academia to support public health practitioners. In addition to directing the Emory Center for Public Health Preparedness and Research, she serves RSPH as Director of Research and Practice Relations with the Georgia Department of Public Health. In this role, she helps faculty across Rollins connect with practitioners to conduct more impactful and collaborative research. She also helps practitioners interested in connecting with Rollins faculty, staff, students and programs.
Dr. Chamberlain has consulted with numerous district health departments, including the Fulton County Board of Health for 7 years. From 2020-2023, she directed the Emory COVID-19 Response Collaborative (ECRC), the mission of which was to put Rollins faculty, staff and students into the service of health department partners working to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in Georgia. As part of the ECRC, she founded the Rollins Epidemiology Fellowship Program which has placed over 60 early career epidemiologists across Georgia’s 18 health districts and at DPH since 2020. She continues to guide the fellowship program, think about ways to improve it, and recruit new cohorts of fellows every spring.
In August 2024, Dr. Chamberlain became the inaugural director of the DrPH program at Rollins. She teaches EPI: 564 Public Health Preparedness and Practice in the fall semester and serves as the academic advisor for the Emory Student Outbreak Response Team (SORT).
Her publications can be found on her PubMed biography here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1RqSys9-oeIQG/bibliography/public/
Areas of Interest
- Health Communication
- Maternal and Child Health
- Public Health Practice
- Public Health Preparedness and Response
- Vaccines
- Immunizations/Vaccines
- Group-Randomized Trials
Education
- BA, University of Virginia
- MS, Georgetown University
- PhD, Emory University
Courses Taught
- EPI 564 - PH Preparedness & Practice
Affiliations
Faculty advisor, Emory Student Outbreak Response Team (SORT)
Director, Rollins DrPH Program
In The News
2024: A Year of Growth
Throughout 2024, Emory's Rollins School of Public Health expanded its academic offerings, advanced innovative public health research and practice, and grew its impact. Faculty, staff, and students helped move public health forward and create a healthier world for all. These are a few highlights from the past year.
Event Helps Prepare Emory Public Health, Medical Students for Disease Outbreak Response
Students from Emory's Rollins School of Public Health and School of Medicine took part in an interdisciplinary tabletop exercise that challenged them to work together to effectively respond to an infectious disease outbreak scenario.
Allison Chamberlain Named Inaugural Director of Rollins Doctor of Public Health Program
Allison Chamberlain, PhD, will serve as the inaugural director of the Rollins Doctor of Public Health program.