Dr. Gurley is an infectious disease epidemiologist and currently Visiting Associate Scientist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has worked in infectious disease research in Bangladesh for more than a decade and currently leads studies on Nipah virus, Japanese encephalitis virus, hepatitis E virus, dengue, Chikungunya, rotavirus, and hospital acquired infections. Her academic interests include improving the communication and collaboration between field epidemiologists and infectious disease modelers and development of novel surveillance strategies. Her research adopts a One Health approach to the study and prevention of infectious disease, taking into account the ecological context in which human disease occurs. http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=I41xfZAAAAAJ&hl=en