Bio
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.
Areas of Interest
- Infectious Disease
- Antibiotic Resistance
- Causal Inference
- Global Health
- Maternal and Child Health
- Safe Water
- Sanitation and Hygiene
- Vaccines
- Diarrheal and Enteric Diseases
- Epidemiology
Education
- PhD, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
- MSPH, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
- BS, Emory University
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