epidemiology — ϲ Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:20:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Brooks Gump /faculty-experts/brooks-gump/ Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:25:07 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=158400

Brooks Gump’s research seeks to understand environmental impacts on children’s health outcomes, with a focus on exposures to toxicants and psychosocial stressors. His current research is exploring methods to buffer the impacts of these chronic exposures. As a separate line of inquiry, he also considers the impact of work vacations on health and functioning.

]]> Brittany Kmush /faculty-experts/brittany-kmush/ Tue, 03 Jul 2018 14:56:21 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=134315 Brittany received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her dissertation was entitled, “Risk factors for antibody loss after Hepatitis E virus natural infection and vaccination.” She earned a master of science in infectious disease epidemiology from the Bloomberg School at Johns Hopkins University and holds a bachelor of science in biochemistry from the University of Rochester where she graduated cum laude. Her areas of specialization include epidemiology, global health, infectious diseases, vaccines, nutrition, immunology and environmental exposures particularly within the context of risks for infectious diseases, and Hepatitis E virus.

In addition to a series of graduate research assistantships at Johns Hopkins, she was a student investigator at the Centre for Child and Adolescent Health, Dhaka, Bangladesh and the National Institute for Diagnosis and Vaccine Development in Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China where she Implemented a study examining the persistence of antibodies after hepatitis E virus infection.

Her professional portfolio includes participation on numerous research grants, including an award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation where she was a student investigator on the project, “Determinants of Immunological Persistence of Hepatitis E Virus Antibodies.” The purpose of the study was to determine antibody persistence after Hepatitis e virus and vaccination in South Asia.

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