Departmental Affiliations
Shannon Seopaul, MPH ’15, is leading public health surveillance of infectious diseases in Maryland to inform public policy at the state and national levels.
Research Interests
Public Health Surveillance; Infectious Disease; Bacteria; Emerging Infections; Healthcare; Health Disparities; HIV; Global Health; Marginalized Populations; Human Rights
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Experiences & Accomplishments
I have a diverse background and training with almost 15 years of experience in clinical research, infectious diseases, project management and regulatory affairs. Currently, I use my expertise to manage all day-to-day operations of the surveillance activities and research projects conducted in the Maryland Active Bacterial Core Surveillance (MD ABCs) Program, which is part of the Emerging Infections Program, a collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health and Centers for Disease Control. Including project design and implementation, development of processes for liaising with reporting labs to ensure provision of invasive isolates; standard operating procedures for coordination of isolate shipments to collaborators; employment of data modernization tools to streamline data collection, review, and analysis. Additionally, I also collaborate and provide regulatory management on several BSPH multi-site, cohort, HIV and COVID-19 studies that focus on transgender people, their risk factors for infection, knowledge gaps and their disease incidence.
Select Publications
Selected Publications from the last 10 years, encompassing work in HIV, global health/human rights, oncology, and allergy/immunology fields.
Wirtz AL, Poteat T, Borquez A, Linton S, Stevenson M, Case J, Brown C, Lint A, Miller M, Radix A, Althoff KN, Schneider J, Haw JS, Wawrzyniak A, Rodriguez A, Cooney E, Humes E, Pontes C, Seopaul S, White C, Beyrer C, Reisner SL, ENCORE Study Group. Enhanced Cohort Methods for HIV Research and Epidemiology (ENCORE) Among Transgender Women in the United States. JMIR Preprints. 23/04/2024:59846
Messner, N., Woods., A., Petty, A., Parmar, P.K., Leigh, J., Thomas, E., Curry, D., Venters, H., Gilbert, A., Nelson, T., & Lester. E. (2019). Qualitative evidence of crimes against humanity: the August 2017 attacks on the Rohingya in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar. Conflict and Health, 13(41). *pseudonym used to protect in-country collaborators.
Parmar, P. K., Leigh, J., Venters, H., Nelson, T., & PHR Rohingya Study Group. (2019). Violence and mortality in the Northern Rakhine State of Myanmar, 2017: results of a quantitative survey of surviving community leaders in Bangladesh. The Lancet Planetary Health, 3(3), e144-e153. *pseudonym used to protect in-country collaborators.
Holdhoff, M., Ye, X., Piotrowski, A. F., Strowd, R. E., Seopaul, S., Lu, Y., Barker, N.J., Sivakumar, A., Rodriguez, F.J., Grossman, S.A., & Burger, P. C. (2018). The consistency of neuropathological diagnoses in patients undergoing surgery for suspected recurrence of glioblastoma. Journal of neuro-oncology, 1-8.
Keet, C.A., Savage, J.H., Seopaul, S., Peng, R.D., Wood, R.A. & Matsui, E.C. (2014). Temporal trends and racial/ethnic disparity in self-reported pediatric food allergy in the United States. Annals of Allergy Asthma and Immunology, 112: 222-229.
Keet, C. A., Seopaul, S., Knorr, S., Narisety, S., Skripak, J., & Wood, R. A. (2013). Long-term follow-up of oral immunotherapy for cow's milk allergy. The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 132(3), 737-739.