Local Public Health Agency
Queens, NY
USA
Email: sgreene4@health.nyc.gov
Biographical Sketch: Sharon K. Greene, PhD, MPH is the Director of the Data Analysis Unit at the Bureau of Communicable Disease at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. In this position, she oversees data quality assessments, outbreak detection, and other analyses for more than 70 reportable diseases and serves as the lead epidemiologic consultant at the bureau for new study proposals and draft manuscripts.
She previously was an epidemiologist for 5 years at the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, focusing on near real-time vaccine safety surveillance, the use of space-time scan statistics in syndromic surveillance, and trends in the usage of antibiotic and antiviral medications.
She holds a PhD in Epidemiologic Science and an MPH in Hospital and Molecular Epidemiology from the University of Michigan.
She served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer in the Enteric Diseases Epidemiology Branch at CDC and has published 25 peer-reviewed articles.
Papers:
Strengthening the Practice of Epidemiologic Methods: A Local Health Department's Consultation Process