In this seminar, Erin Sorrell, then assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Georgetown University, discussed her research in Libya to identify elements required to support sustainable national health systems strengthening and laboratory capacity building for infectious disease detection, reporting, risk assessment, and response. In reflecting on the work, she emphasized the importance of taking an implementation science and partner-led approach to strengthening health security capacities, with an emphasis on fragile and conflict settings.
This event was co-sponsored by the Center for Global Health Science and Security, the School of Health’s Department of Health Management and Policy, and the Global Health Institute.
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Erin M. Sorrell is a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and an associate professor at John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Previously, she was a member of the Center for Global Health Science and Security, an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Georgetown University, and the director of the Elizabeth R. Griffin Program at the Center for Global Health Science and Security. Sorrell was also the director of and taught in the Biohazardous Threat Agents and Emerging Infectious Diseases M.Sc. Program at Georgetown. Sorrell works with partners across the U.S. government, international organizations, and ministries around the world to identify elements required to support health systems strengthening and laboratory capacity building for disease detection, reporting, risk assessment, and response. She is also interested in operational and implementation research questions related to sustainable health systems strengthening, with an emphasis on the prevention, management, and control of infectious diseases in humanitarian situations, and particularly countries and regions affected by conflict.