Johanna P. Daily, MD MSc

Associate Professor In Department of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology

MD: State University of New York at Syracuse

MSc-Epidemiology: Harvard University

My interest in what is now being termed global health started in medical school. I spent a two month elective at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi joining the pediatric in patient team. Malaria was a major problem. During my Internal Medicine Residency I spent two months at the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and observed both in-patients and outpatients with tropical diseases and sat in on research conferences. These experiences informed me sufficiently to choose Infectious Disease as a subspecialty with laboratory training in the molecular biology of Plasmodium in Dyann Wirth’s lab at HSPH. We carried out drug resistance studies in Senegal and I began my work looking at the diversity of parasite gene expression as measured directly from patient blood (no interim culture). We discovered novel biological states.

My other efforts were in outcomes research working with Paul Farmer and the Global Health and Social Inequities Division at BWH. Our goal was to utilize a routinely measured outcome such as pediatric hospitalizations to measure impact of a multipronged antimalarial campaign. Finally I have been interested in the utilization of UpToDate in resource limited settings. We deployed this evidence based medical resource in a number of health care facilities and are now measuring its impact. I am interested in both basic science and outcomes research in malaria.

Email: jdaily@einstein.yu.edu