Mentor Research Statement

Research Interests

Opportunistic infections in AIDS patients; Interrelationship between tuberculosis and AIDS in developing countries; Emerging and re-emerging infections and Vaccine preventable diseases in the US and in developing countries

Dr. Reingold conducts epidemiologic and molecular epidemiologic research on a variety of infectious diseases and infectious disease agents in the U.S. and in a number of developing countries, including Brazil, Uganda, India, and Thailand. With funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Reingold and his students and fellows study the community-acquired bacterial pathogens that cause pneumonia, meningitis, and sepsis (e.g., S. pneumoniae, N. meningitidis, and group B streptococcus); vaccine preventable infectious diseases (e.g., measles); influenza; tuberculosis; malaria; and HIV/AIDS. Epidemiologic and molecular epidemiologic studies currently in progress address antimicrobial resistance; vaccine effectiveness; risk factors for disease; and treatment trials of therapeutic agents. These studies and the data and strains collected offer numerous opportunities for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows to develop and conduct their own studies that build on and augment ongoing projects; as well as to plan and carry out data analyses. BCSDP trainees would have access to these databases and opportunities to conduct epidemiologic studies..