Investigators and Program Directors
Dale L. Morse
Assistant Commissioner, Office of Science, New York State Department of Health
Professor, School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
M.D., University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (1975)
M.S., Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, MA (1985)
E-mail: dlm04@health.state.ny.us
Research Interests
Epidemiology of Emerging Infections
As a physician epidemiologist, Dr. Morse collaborates with a large team of laboratory, epidemiology and academic researchers on wide-ranging studies of emerging infections. Through these collaborative activities, New York has become one of ten states nationwide to obtain a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) grant as a sentinel state in the Emerging Infections Program. In addition, New York has CDC Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity, Public Health Emergency Preparedness, and Health Information Exchange Informatics grants.
My broad interests include population-based surveillance, molecular epidemiology, combined epidemiologic and laboratory studies, and electronic laboratory surveillance. Specific foci are vaccine preventable diseases, foodborne diseases (Salmonella, Shigella, E. coli 0157:H7, Yersinia, Listeria, Campylobacter, Vibrio), invasive bacterial diseases (Hemophilus influenzae, Streptococcus pneumoniae) and tuberculosis. Gastrointestinal illnesses caused by caliciviruses, rotaviruses and parasitic diseases (Cryptosporidia, Cyclospora) are also of interest, as is the search for etiologic agents associated with encephalitis. Since 1994, I have been PI/Co-PI on several NIH Fogarty International Training grants for Eastern/Central Europe in the areas of AIDS, TB and emerging infections.
Contact Information
Phone: (518) 473-4959
Fax: (518) 402-5065
E-mail: dlm04@health.state.ny.us