School of Medicine
Showing 11-20 of 28 Results
-
Abraar Karan, MD MS MPH DTM&H
Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Infectious Diseases
Fellow in Medicine - Med/Infectious DiseasesBioI am an infectious disease fellow and post-doctoral researcher in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, the Luby Lab, the Center for Innovation in Global Health, the King Center on Global Development, and the Woods Institute for the Environment. I worked on the Covid19 outbreak for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health in 2020, and the Monkeypox outbreak for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health in 2022-23. I also served on the WHO-commissioned Independent Panel on Pandemic Preparedness and Response's research team investigating early global spread of Covid19, and helped with policy-writing for the Biden-Harris campaign on reducing Covid19 in schools. I am currently the Principal Investigator of the following studies: a cluster-randomized controlled trial investigating whether air filtration and ventilation can reduce spread of Covid19 in low-income homes in the Bay Area (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05777720); piloting a low-cost rural surveillance system for detecting spillover of zoonotic diseases in Western Kenya. I am also a co-investigator on a study focused on surveillance of H5N1 in humans in Central California.
I completed my internal medicine residency at the Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School in the Global Health Equity program, and have been working in global health since 2008. I co-edited the book, "Protecting the Health of the Poor" (December 2015, Bloomsbury Publishing, https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/protecting-the-health-of-the-poor-9781783605521/); and co-founded Longsleeve insect repellent, winner of the 2018 Harvard Business School New Venture Competition and finalist in the 2019 Harvard President's Challenge. Media/press coverage has included NBC, ABC, BBC, PBS, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, Washington Post, New York Times, SF Chronicle, Bloomberg, Boston Globe, ProPublica, WSJ, TIME, Politico, CBC News, Democracy Now, NPR, ESPN, The Atlantic, The Hill, Business Insider, Vice, Mother Jones, Vox, Forbes, Slate, STAT News, MTV News, Mother Jones, Science Friday, TMZ.
For a full list of publications, please see "Publications" tab. For full list of press/media interviews, please see "Media" link.
Teaching Experience:
Teaching Assistant-- Epi 231, Infectious Disease Epidemiology (Winter 2024)
Teaching Assistant-- Epi 237, Practical Approaches to Global Health Research (Autumn 2024)
Teaching Assistant-- Epi 231, Infectious Disease Epidemiology (Winter 2025) -
Max Lamparth
Postdoctoral Scholar, Infectious Diseases
BioMax is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, the Stanford Center for AI Safety, the Stanford Existential Risks Initiative, and the Brainstorm Lab at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He is advised by Prof. Clark Barrett, Prof. Steve Luby, and Prof. Paul Edwards.
With his research, he wants to make AI systems more secure and safe to use. Specifically, he is focussing on improving the ethical behavior of language models, making their inner workings more interpretable, and increasing their robustness against misuse.
Max received his Ph.D. in August 2023 from the School of Natural Sciences at the Technical University of Munich and previously a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics from the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg. -
Yimam Misganie
Postdoctoral Scholar, Infectious Diseases
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Misganie's research focuses on AI-driven analysis of complex datasets, particularly in viral infections like HIV drug resistance (HIVDR). He use AI and machine learning to understand viral dynamics, drug resistance mechanisms, and treatment outcomes. His work integrates big data and genomic data to inform public health strategies. He also study viral molecular epidemiology using whole-genome sequencing and apply NLP techniques to enhance research in global health.
