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BACKGROUND

Dr. Rogawski McQuade is Assistant 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. Dr. McQuade completed her MSPH in Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2012), Ph.D. in Epidemiology at Chapel Hill (2015) and her post doc work (2016) at the University of Virginia.  

PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

• Principal Investigator, K01, R01, NIAID grants on enteric disease in early childhood
• Co-investigator for several multisite birth cohort, case-control, and randomized trial studies of enteric disease that used quantitative molecular diagnostics for enteric pathogens using the TaqMan Array Card platform
• Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia (2016 – 2021)
• Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases & International Health, University of Virginia (2016 – 2021)
• Outstanding Investigator, Young Investigator Award at the UVA NIH K and THRIV awardee Symposium (2018)
• WHIL Innovations Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Infectious Diseases & International Health, University of Virginia (2015 – 2016)
• Research Fellow, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Public Health Foundation of India, Delhi (2012 – 2013)

AREAS OF INTEREST

• Identifying complex interactions between early childhood diarrhea, enteric infections, environmental enteropathy, antibiotic use, and their effects on child health and development
• Applies novel causal inference-based methods to generate epidemiologic evidence relevant to public health interventions and policy
• Understanding the impact of vaccines and other interventions for enteric diseases
• Collaborating with Investigators around the world with fieldwork in India, South Africa, and Tanzania
• Answering questions related to interventions that translate to public health programs
• Pathogens: enteric infections, COVID-19

PUBLICATIONS

• National Library of Medicine
• Google Scholar

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