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

Email:
Katherine_Yih@harvardpilgrim.org

Phone: (617) 509-9822
Fax: (617) 859-8112

Katherine Yih, PhD, MPH

Dr Yih is a Lecturer in the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, and is a biologist and epidemiologist with domestic and international experience in immunization and vaccine-preventable disease epidemiology. Her interests include the population dynamics and evolution of pathogens in response to immunization and other disease-control measures. At DACP, she oversees near-real-time surveillance for vaccine adverse events for the national Vaccine Safety Datalink, manages a collaboration evaluating the public health utility of a working model for national syndromic surveillance, and participates in the Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS).

Select publications:

• Yih WK, Silva EA, Ida J, Harrington N, Lett SM, George H. Bordetella holmesii-like organisms isolated from Massachusetts patients presenting with pertussis-like symptoms. Emerg Infect Dis 1999;5:441-3.
• Yih WK, Lett SM, des Vignes F, Garrison K, Sipe P, Marchant C. The increasing incidence of pertussis in Massachusetts adolescents and adults, 1989-1998. J Infect Dis 2000;182:1409-16.
• Yih WK, Brooks DR, Lett SM, Jumaan AO, Zhang Z, Clements KM, Seward JF. The incidence of varicella and herpes zoster in Massachusetts as measured by the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) during a period of increasing varicella vaccine coverage, 1998-2003. BMC Public Health 2005;5:68.
• Yih WK, Abrams A, Danila RN, Green KL, Kleinman K, Kulldorff M, Miller BD, Nordin JD, Platt R. Ambulatory care diagnoses as potential indicators of outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness—Minnesota. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 2005;54 (suppl):157-162. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su5401a25.htm
• Klein NP, Yih WK, Marin M, Jumaan AO, Seward JF, Broder K, Iskander J, Snider DE. Update: Recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) regarding administration of combination MMRV vaccine. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 2008;57:258-260.