Co-Investigator, Research Project 3, MISM
Asst. Professor in Population Health Sciences, Duke
Dana K. Pasquale, PhD, Co-Investigator, is an Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine. She earned a PhD in infectious disease epidemiology from UNC-Chapel Hill, an MPH in health behavior from East Carolina University, and completed three years as a postdoc in the Department of Sociology at Duke University. Dr. Pasquale’s research combines social network and pathogen genetic data to study infectious disease transmission networks, particularly HIV and syphilis transmission in North Carolina. She also uses clonal bacterial data, pathogen genetic data, and location information to study hospital-acquired multidrug-resistant infections.
Dr. Pasquale is the PI of Duke RDS^2: Respondent-Driven Sampling for Respiratory Disease Surveillance, a CDC-funded snowball sampling study to locate active, undiagnosed SARS-CoV-2 cases in Durham County, NC. She is also externally funded by NIH and NSF as a co-investigator. For MISM Research Project 3, Dr. Pasquale designs and develops synthetic contact networks to simulate epidemics.