Mailing Address:
Harvard Medical School
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention
133 Brookline Avenue, 6th Floor
Boston, MA 02215

Email: Sharon_Greene@harvardpilgrim.org

Phone: (617) 509-7205
Fax: (617) 859-8112

Sharon Greene, PhD, MPH

Dr. Greene is a Lecturer in the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention and is an epidemiologist with domestic and international experience in infectious disease surveillance and outbreak investigation. Her current research focuses on real-time vaccine safety surveillance, vaccination in nontraditional settings, and the use of space-time scan statistics in syndromic surveillance. Prior to joining DACP, Dr. Greene served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer in the Enteric Diseases Epidemiology Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She holds a PhD in Epidemiologic Science and an MPH in Hospital and Molecular Epidemiology from the University of Michigan.

Select publications:

• Greene SK, Daly ER, Talbot EA, Demma LJ, Holzbauer S, Patel NJ, Hill TA, Walderhaug MO, Hoekstra RM, Lynch MF, Painter JA. (2008) Recurrent multistate outbreak of Salmonella Newport associated with tomatoes from contaminated fields, 2005. Epidemiology and Infection 136(2): 157-165.
• Greene SK, Yartel A, Moriarty K, Nathan L, Salehi E, Tengelsen L, Patel NJ, Lynch MF. (2007) Salmonella Kingabwa infections and lizard contact, United States, 2005. Emerging Infectious Diseases 13(4): 661-662. Available from http://www.cdc.gov/EID/content/13/4/661.htm.
• Dunn J, Pryor J, Saketa S, Delai W, Baudromo E, Kishore K, Naidu S, Greene SK, Varma J, Chiller T. (2007) Laboratory-based Salmonella surveillance in Fiji, 2004-2005. Pacific Health Dialog 12(2): 53-59. Available from http://www.spc.int/phs/PPHSN/Publications/PHDSurveillance/English.htm.
• Greene SK, Ionides EL, Wilson ML. (2006) Patterns of influenza-associated mortality among US elderly by geographic region and virus subtype, 1968-1998. American Journal of Epidemiology 163(4):316-326. Available from http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/163/4/316.
• Greene SK, Schmidt MA, Stobierski MG, Wilson ML. (2005) Spatio-temporal pattern of viral meningitis in Michigan, 1993-2001. Journal of Geographical Systems 7: 85-99.