Associate Professor in Residence, Environmental Health Sciences
Program Director, Master of Public Health Program
Jay Graham’s research contributes to the development of more efficient and effective approaches to scale-up public health initiatives for the prevention and control of infectious diseases.
Address: 2121 Berkeley Way #5303
Berkeley, CA 94720
Biography
Dr. Jay Graham applies advanced epidemiologic methods and next-generation DNA sequencing to refine our understanding of the spatial and temporal transmission of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and zoonotic infectious diseases. He has worked in a variety of countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa, and he has extensive experience working on the US-México border where he conducted research on the primary prevention of diarrheal diseases and pneumonia within informal settlements of Ciudad Juárez, MX. Much of his recent work has focused on research to prevent and control the spread of antimicrobial resistance. Dr. Graham holds an MPH and an MBA, and he received his PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prior to joining the faculty in EHS, he served as a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, and served as a lead technical advisor on water, sanitation and hygiene and household air pollution in the Bureau for Global Health at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Research Interests
Community-acquired antimicrobial resistance
Zoonotic infectious diseases
Environmental determinants of infectious diseases
Exposure assessment
Education
PhD – Environmental Health Sciences Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2007
MBA – University of Texas at El Paso, 2002
MPH – University of Texas Health Science Center, 2000