Christine Petersen, DVM, PhD, FASTMH
email: christine-petersen@uiowa.edu
phone: 319-384-1579
Title(s)
Director of the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Department of Epidemiology
Green Chair of Public Health
University of Iowa
Office
S429 CPHB Iowa City, IA 52242
Information
Education
2004 – Ph.D. (Immunology and Infectious Diseases), Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
1998 – D.V.M., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1994 – B.A. (Biology) with departmental honors, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Research interests:
- Investigation of host-pathogen interaction between the murine or canine immune system and Leishmania species
- Characterization of key signaling events required to induce clearance of disease vs. chronicity
- Understanding of processing of and immune responses to carbohydrates
- Development of diagnostics and epidemiological studies of Brucella canis
- Prevention of infectious diseases in kennel/animal shelter settings