Tetyana (Tanya) Vasylyeva, MSc, MPH, DPhil | Source | Assistant Professor of Population Health & Disease Prevention at UC Irvine J...
Tetyana (Tanya) Vasylyeva, MSc, MPH, DPhil
Dr. “Tanya” Vasylyeva is an assistant professor in the Department of Population Health and Disease Prevention with a global health emphasis. Tanya is an expert in molecular and socio-behavioral epidemiology, with a particular focus on HIV epidemics in migrant and forcibly displaced populations. Her work is aimed at utilizing phylodynamics and epidemiological modeling to describe the spread of viral infectious diseases in a population and assess different prevention strategies. Dr. Vasylyeva research interests include vulnerable populations (people who inject drugs, forcibly displaced people, men who have sex with men) at risk for HIV. Her current aim is to develop a framework for socio-molecular epidemiology investigations in forcibly displaced populations.
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UC Irvine Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health
Assistant Professor of Population Health & Disease Prevention
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Study exposes socio-economic disparities during the initial wave of COVID-19 in New York City – UC Irvine Wen Public Health
UC Irvine & UC San Diego’s findings show how these disparities influenced the spread of COVID-19 variants
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“By focusing on the time preceding the emergence of the Delta and Omicron variants, we show that the consequences of socio-economic disparities in an outbreak can have a ripple effect that can last into subsequent outbreaks, providing an important lesson for future epidemic preparedness and mitigation efforts.”
