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Dana Kristine Pasquale earned her Ph.D. in Infectious Disease Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MPH in Health Behavior from East Carolina University. She has completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University in the Department of Sociology. Dr. Pasquale’s research focuses on the intersection of social network analysis and pathogen genetic data to study infectious disease transmission networks, particularly domestic issues surrounding HIV and syphilis in North Carolina. She employs clonal bacterial data and pathogen genetic data, along with location information, to investigate hospital-acquired multi-drug-resistant infections. As the Principal Investigator for the Duke Respondent-Driven Sampling (RDS^2) project, she leads a CDC-funded study aimed at locating active, undiagnosed SARS-CoV-2 cases in Durham County. Dr. Pasquale is also an externally funded co-investigator for various NIH and NSF projects.
Duke University • Durham, NC
Teaching and conducting research in the Department of Population Health Sciences.
Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)