The Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases (IID) was formed in 1997 when the Departments of Cancer Biology (CB), Molecular and Cellular Toxicology (MCT), and Tropical Public Health (TPH) merged and formed two new departments, IID and the Department of Cancer Cell Biology (CCB). The merger was designed to streamline areas in which research methods had become similar. At the time of the merger, Max Essex, said "twenty years ago the approaches used in the study of parasitic diseases, as in the Department of Tropical Public Health, were very different from the approaches used in virology. Over time, the methods and strategies have become very much the same. We're all trying to understand how and why viruses or bacteria or parasitic organisms or other infectious agents cause disease and epidemics, why epidemics spread the way they do, and what we can do to check that spread."

Research in our 15 labs is focused on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, parasitology and immunology.
IID comprises 26 faculty members, over 100 research and lab staff, and about 30 administrative staff.

IID is spread over three buildings of HSPH on nine different floors. We occupy:

• Building 1, 1st Floor
• Building 1, 7th Floor
• Building 1, 8th Floor
• Building 1, 9th Floor
• FXB Building, 2nd Floor
• FXB Building, 3rd Floor
• FXB Building, 4th Floor
• FXB Building, 6th Floor
• Building 2, 4th Floor
  

Faculty

Sarah Fortune

Office:       SPH1, RM 807

Phone:      (617) 432-6965

Email:       sfortune@hsph.harvard.edu

Research Staff

Alejandra Jaeger

Office:      SPH1, RM 802

Phone:     (617) 432-2683

Email:      ajaeger@hsph.harvard.edu

Rupal Shah

Office:     SPH1, RM 802

Phone:    (617) 432-2683

Email:      rshah@hsph.harvard.edu

Research Associate

Krishnamohan Atmakuri

Office:    SPH1, RM 802

Phone:    (617) 432-2683

Email:     katamkur@hsph.harvard.edu

Michael Chase

Office:     SPH1, RM 815

Phone:    (617) 432-7506

Email:     mrchase@hsph.harvard.edu

Postdoctoral Fellows

Bree Aldridge

Office:     SPH1, RM 815

Phone:     (617) 432-7506

Email:      aldridge@hsph.harvard.edu

Tracy Rosebrock

Office:     SPH1, RM 804

Phone:     (617) 432-1345

Email:      trosebro@hsph.harvard.edu

Scarlet  Shell

Office:     SPH1, RM 815

Phone:     (617) 432-7506

Email:      sshell@hsph.harvard.edu

Graduate Students

Chris Ford

Office:     SPH1, RM 804

Phone:     (617) 432-1345

Email:      cbford@fas.harvard.edu

Angie Isaza

Office:     SPH 1, RM 815

Phone:     (617) 432-7506

Email:      

Talia Ramsdell

Office:      SPH1, RM 802

Phone:     (617) 432-2683

Email:      tramsdel@fas.harvard.edu

Visiting Scientist

Marta Fernandez Suarez

Office:     SPH1, RM 815

Phone:     (617) 432-7506

Email:      mfernandez-suarez@partners.org

Visiting Student 

Lia Rotherham

Office:     SPH1, RM 802

Phone:     (617) 432-2683

Email:      lrotherh@hsph.harvard.edu

Faculty

Eric Rubin

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3335

Email:      erubin@hsph.harvard.edu

Yerby Postdoctoral Fellow

Alissa Myrick

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      amyrick@hsph.harvard.edu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Mihee Michelle Kim

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      MMKIM@hsph.harvard.edu

Jun-Rung Wei

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      jrwei@hsph.harvard.edu

Visiting Scientists

Simon Dillon

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      sdillon@hsph.harvard.edu

Babak Javid

Office:      HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:       bjavid@hsph.harvard.edu

Bavesh Kana

Office:     TBD

Phone:     TBD

Email:      TBD

Iris Keren

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      iriskeren@yahoo.com

Mihee Kim

Office:      HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:      (617) 432-3337

Email:       mmkim@hsph.harvard.edu

Vidhya Krishnamoorthy

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      vkrishna@hsph.harvard.edu

Flavia Sorrentino

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      fsorrent@hsph.harvard.edu

Wan-Jr Syu

Office:      HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      wsyu@hsph.harvard.edu

Research Staff

Emmy Balon Dove

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-5414

Email:      ebalon@hsph.harvard.edu

Shoko Minami

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      sminami@hsph.harvard.edu

Jessica Pinkham

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      TBA

Graduate Students

Michael Chao

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      mchao@fas.harvard.edu

Peter Freese

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      pfreese@fas.harvard.edu

Edward Kazyanzkaya

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      edward.kazyanskaya@student.hms.harvard.edu   

Anisha Kumar

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      arkumar@fas.harvard.edu

Amanda Martinot

Office:      HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:       amartino@hsph.harvard.edu

Erica Porter

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Ravikiran Raju

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      rraju@hsph.harvard.edu

Francis Scott

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Josie Valcin    

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337   

Jason Zhang

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337  

Email:      jason_zhang@hms.harvard.edu

Visiting Student

Nqobile Ngubane

Office:     HMS, Armenise 439

Phone:     (617) 432-3337

Email:      nngubane@hsph.harvard.edu