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Jessica Fairley

  • Department of Medicine
    Associate Professor
  • Emory Division of Infectious Diseases
    1462 Clifton Rd, NE
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Overview

Dr. Fairley received her undergraduate and medical degrees from Georgetown University. She then completed her combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Brown University followed by fellowship in infectious diseases at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine in Cleveland OH. During fellowship, she completed the Diploma Program in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. She subsequently earned a Masters in Public Health in global epidemiology from Emory University in 2016. Dr. Fairley joined Emory in 2010 and currently holds a primary appointment as associate professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases. She is also jointly appointed in Rollins School of Public Health in the Hubert Department of Global Health, where she teaches and mentors students. She works at Emory TravelWell Center where her clinical scope involves preparing travelers for international travel and evaluating returning travelers or immigrants with various syndromes or infections. She also directs the Emory Hansens Disease Program, a satellite clinic of the National Hansens Disease Program, whose mission is to care for patients with Hansens disease (leprosy) and to raise awareness of the disease. Her research centers on the epidemiology, host-pathogen interactions, and impact of neglected, tropical or emerging infectious diseases across unique and / or vulnerable populations globally and locally. More specifically, her projects focus on the transmission of and susceptibility to leprosy including how parasitic co-infections, unsafe WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) and micronutrient deficiencies influence Mycobacterium leprae infection. Additional focus includes the intersection of climate change, planetary health, and infectious diseases including projects on immigrant communities, neglected tropical diseases and climate vulnerabilities as well as extreme weather and arboviral epidemiology in Georgia. She has taught courses on Global Health, Infectious Diseases, and Planetary Health at the Rollins School of Public Health.

Academic Appointment

  • Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Epididemiology, Emory University
  • Associate Professor of Global Health, Hubert Department of Global Health, Emory University
  • Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine

Education

Degrees

  • MD from Georgetown University
  • MPH from Emory University
  • BS from Georgetown University

Research

Publications

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