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Dana Kristine Pasquale

Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences
Population Health Sciences
215 Morris Street, Suite 210, Durham, NC 27701
215 Morris Street, Suite 210, Durham, NC 27701

Research Interests


Epidemiology, infectious diseases, network analysis, disease transmission, agent based models, phylogenetic analysis, pathogen genetic data, spatial analysis, HIV, sexually transmitted infections, antibiotic resistance, nosocomial infections

Selected Grants


PIPP Phase II: Theme 4: Human Systems - The Center for Analysis and Prediction of Pandemic Expansion (APPEX)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Tennessee Knoxville · 2024 - 2031

Effectively Linking Molecular Informatics and Network Analytics to Reduce Malaria (ELIMINAR-Malaria)

ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2028

Building a Harmonized Village Network data resources for realistic disease transmission models

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2026

Increasing the yield of HIV contact tracing for prevention using network models

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2026

Collaborative Research: HNSD-I: IDEANet - Integrating Data Exchange and Analysis of Networks

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2025

PIPP Phase I: Predicting Emergence in Multidisciplinary Pandemic Tipping-points

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by University of Tennessee Knoxville · 2022 - 2025

Economic security and health disparity in COVID-19: A computational modeling approach.

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2024

Healthy Friendships: Social Networks and Health in Uttar Pradesh, India

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2023

RAPID: Developing Social Stratification-respecting Disease Transmission Models

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2023

Duke RDS2 (Respondent-Driven Sampling, Respiratory Disease Surveillance) the SNOWBALL Sampling Study

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · 2020 - 2022

J3 - MATRix: Combined HIV and STD Prevention and Care for Vulnerable Men who Have Sex with Men and Transgender Women via Network Methods.

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2018 - 2021

Fellowships, Gifts, and Supported Research


Network analysis of carbapenem resistance in Enterobacteriaceae · 2019 - 2020 Postdoctoral researcher / co-Investigator · Awarded by: Duke CTSI
Parasite-Host Evolution Network Optimization (PHENO) Working Group · 2019 - 2019 co-Investigator · Awarded by: Duke Intellectual Community Planning Grant
Combined HIV and STD Prevention and Care for Vulnerable Men who Have Sex with Men and Transgender Women via Network Methods · 2017 - 2020 co-Investigator · Awarded by: CDC