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Amanda Durante, PhD, MSc
124 East Pattagansett Road, Niantic, CT, 06357
(860) 333 4965, [email protected]
Education:
Yale University School of Public Health
Epidemiology of Microbial Disease Division
New Haven, CT
September 1996 - December 2001
Ph.D. Epidemiology and Public Health
London School of Hygiene /
London School of Economics
London University
London, England
October 1988 – June 1989
M.Sc. Health Planning & Financing
Smith College
Northampton, MA
September 1984 – May 1988
B.A. (Cum Laude) Sociology major /
Economics minor
Employment:
City of New Haven Department of Health
New Haven, CT
January 2010-present
Epidemiologist
Information Services Division
Responsible for identification, collection, analysis
and dissemination of health-related data
including reportable diseases, vital statistics,
school data, other routinely collected data and
surveys. Participates in investigation and
control of infectious disease. Contributes to
disaster preparedness planning, training and
exercises.
Yale University School of Public Health
New Haven, CT
December 2005 - December 2009
Coordinator / Epidemiologist
Yale Center for Public Health Preparedness
Provided training, curriculum development and
technical assistance to Connecticut State and
Local public health departments in the areas of
the Strategic National Stockpile / mass
dispensing, epidemiology surge capacity, and
pandemic influenza.
Pfizer, Inc
New London, CT
April 2004 - November 2005
Associate Director / Epidemiologist
Safety and Risk Management
Conducted safety analyses in support of drug
development including reviewing the
epidemiologic literature, analyzing clinical trials
data and designing epidemiologic studies.
Yale University School of Public Health
New Haven, CT
April 2002 - April 2004
Epidemiologist
Yale Emerging Infections Program
Provided epidemiologic oversight of New Haven
County Liver Study including protocol
development, data management and analysis,
design of validation studies, and preparation of
scientific manuscripts. Contributed to the
development, management and analysis of other
surveillance projects.
Yale University AIDS Program
New Haven, CT
June 1995 - March 1998
Epidemiologist
Community-based study of TB among drug
users
Undertook study implementation and data
analysis for a community tuberculosis
epidemiology and control project.
Communicable Disease
Surveillance Centre
London, England
July 1989 - May 1995
Epidemiologist
PHLS Collaborative Survey of Salivary
Antibodies to HIV and Hepatitis B core in
Injecting Drug Users
Managed all day-to-day aspects of this national
multi-center surveillance survey, including
implementation, data management and analysis,
budgeting, protocol development and staff
supervision.
Teaching Experience:
Yale School of Public Health
New Haven, CT
Spring, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
Lecturer
Public Health Surveillance
Developed and taught MPH course
Yale University
New Haven, CT
Fall, 2004, 2005
Lecturer
Public Health Management of Disaster
Co-taught MPH course. Redesigned and
updated the curriculum.
University of Connecticut Medical Center
Farmington, CT
Fall, 2007
Spring, 2004
Instructor
Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Developed and taught MPH course.
Awards and Honors:
NIMH Post-Doctoral Fellowship in HIV/AIDS (awarded but declined), 2001
Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society, May 1988
Smith College Alumnae Association Graduate Fellowship, May 1988
Training Completed:
IS 100 - Introduction to the Incident Command System (FEMA)
IS 120 - Introduction to Exercises (FEMA)
IS 700 - National Incident Management Systems (NIMS) – an introduction
An Introduction to Food Security Awareness (FDA)
Strategic National Stockpile: Guidance and Overview (CDC)
Public Health Emergency Law (Connecticut Department of Public Health)
Committees:
National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Epidemiology Workgroup,
October 2011 – present
Connecticut Mass Dispensing Taskforce, 2007-2008 (Mass Dispensing Training Plan Workgroup,
Field Action Guide Workgroup)
Centers for Public Health Preparedness Food and Water Safety Collaboration Group, Chair, 20062007
Skills:
Experienced user of SAS (statistical software), Lectora (course authoring software), and Microsoft
products (Access, Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Outlook). User of ArcGIS.
Training developed:
Yale Center for Public Health Preparedness, Connecticut Department of Public Health, Point of
Dispensing (POD) Medical Screener Training, Online course, 2008. Available at http://ct.train.org,
course number 1014669.
Yale Center for Public Health Preparedness, Connecticut Department of Public Health &
Connecticut Association of Directors of Health, Building Surge Epidemiology Capacity:
Epidemiologic Data Collection Training for Non-epidemiologist, In-person training package, 2008.
Yale Center for Public Health Preparedness, Connecticut Department of Public Health. Mass
Dispensing Toolkit Training, In-person training package with video summary, 2008. Video available
at http://ct.train.org, course number 1014429.
Yale Center for Public Health Preparedness, Connecticut Department of Public Health. Local POD
trainers – roles, strategies and resources, In-person training package, 2008.
Yale Center for Public Health Preparedness, Connecticut Department of Public Health, Point of
Dispensing (POD) Staff Orientation, In-person or online course, 2007. Online course available at
http://ct.train.org, course number 1010962. In-person course material available at
http://info.med.yale.edu/eph/ycphp/projects/dispensing.html.
Yale Center for Public Health Preparedness, Connecticut Department of Public Health, Point of
Dispensing Evaluator Orientation. In-person course, 2006. In-person course materials available at
http://info.med.yale.edu/eph/ycphp/resources.html.
Publications:
Connally NP, Durante AJ, Yousey-Hindes KM, Meek JI, Nelson RS, Heimer R. Peridomestic Lyme
Disease Prevention: Results of a Population-Based Case-Control Study. American Journal of
Preventive Medicine 2009; 37(3): 201-206.
Durante AJ, Melchreit M, Sullivan K, Degutis L. Connecticut competency-based point of dispensing
worker training needs assessment. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness 2009: 3(4).
Durante AJ, St. Louis T, Navarro V, Meek J, Sofair AB. The mortality burden of chronic liver disease
may be substantially underestimated in the United States but could be improved. Connecticut
Medicine 2008: 72(7): 389-392.
Durante AJ, Meek J, St. Louis T, Navarro V, Sofair AN. Cirrhosis-related hospitalization rates and
proportions related to viral hepatitis; New Haven County, Connecticut 1999-2000. Connecticut
Medicine 2008; 72(7): 393-397.
Abdala N, Karsnoselskikh TV, Durante AJ, Timofeeva MY, Vervochkin SV, Kozlov AP. Sexually
transmitted infections, sexual risk behaviors and the risk of heterosexual spread of HIV among and
beyond IDUs in St. Petersburg, Russia. European Addiction Research 2008; 14(1).
Durante AJ, Melchreit R, Sullivan K, Degutis L. Partnering for success: recruitment, training, and
deployment of public health exercise evaluators. Public Health Reports 2007; 122(6).
Yeo SF, Huie S, Sofair AN, Campbell S, Durante A, Wong B. Measurement of serum Darabinitol/creatinine ratios for initial diagnosis and for predicting outcome in an unselected,
population-based sample of patients with Candida fungemia. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 2006;
44(11): 3894-3899.
Sullivan LE, Fiellin DA, Durante AJ, Sofair AN. The impact of substance use disorders on
eligibility for treatment of hepatitis C infection. Journal of General Internal Medicine
2003;18 Suppl 1:158.
Durante AJ, Williams AB, Da Costa M, Darragh T, Khoshnood K, Palefsky J. Longitudinal study of
anal cytologic abnormalities in a cohort of HIV-infected women. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers &
Prevention 2003; 12(7): 638-642.
Strickler HD, Palefsky JM, Shah KV, Anastos K, Klein RS, Minkoff H, Duerr A, Massad LS,
Celentano DD, Hall C, Fazzari M, Cu-Uvin S, Bacon M, Schuman P, Levine AM, Durante AJ, Gange
S, Melnick S, Burk RD. Human Papillomavirus Type 16 and Immune Status in Human
Immunodeficiency Virus-Seropositive Women. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2003; 95(14):
1062-71.
Abdala N, Carney JM, Durante AJ, Klimov N, Ostrovski D, Somlai AM, Kozlov A, Heimer R.
Estimating the prevalence of syringe-borne and sexually transmitted diseases among injecting drug
users in St. Petersburg, Russia. International Journal of STD & AIDS 2003; 14(10): 697-703.
Bova C & Durante A . Sexual functioning among HIV-infected women. AIDS Patient Care and STDs
2003; 17(2): 75-83.
Durante AJ, Bova CA, Fennie KP, Danvers K, Holness D, Burgess JD, Williams AB. Home-based
study of adherence to anti-retroviral medication regimens. AIDS Care 2003, 15(1):
O'Connor PG, Shi JM, Henry S, Durante AJ, Friedman L, Selwyn PA. Tuberculosis
chemoprophylaxis using a liquid isoniazid-methadone admixture for drug users in methadone
maintenance. Addiction 1999; 94(7): 1071-1075.
Durante AJ, Selwyn PA, O'Connor PG. Risk factors for and knowledge of Mycobacterium
tuberculosis infection among drug users in substance abuse treatment. Addiction 1998; 93(9): 13931401.
Selwyn PA, Pumerantz AS, Durante AJ, Alcabes PG, Gourevitch MN, Boiselle PM, Elmore JG.
Clinical predictors of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, bacterial pneumonia and tuberculosis in HIVinfected patients. AIDS 1998; 12: 885-893.
Durante AJ, Heptonstall J. How many people are there in England and Wales at risk of infection from
injecting drug use? Communicable Disease Report Review 1995;5(3):R40-R44.
Durante AJ, Hart GH, Brady T, Madden P, Noone A. The Health of the Nation Target on syringe
sharing: a role for routine surveillance in assessing progress and targeting interventions. Addiction
1995; 90: 1389-1396.
Noone A, Durante AJ, Brady AR, Majid F, Swan AV, Parry JV et al. HIV infection in injecting drug
users attending centres in England and Wales, 1990-1991. AIDS 1993; 7: 1501-1507.
Durante AJ. HIV infection in injecting drug users. AIDS Care 1991; 3(4): 439 - 441.
Hart G, Durante A. A review of the behavioural research on drug users and gay men from the VII
International Conference on AIDS. Health Education Journal 1991; 50(4): 174-178.
Selected Conference presentations:
Health Equity Alliance Data Work Group. Overview of the New Haven Community Safety Briefing
Document. Presented at the Visioning a Healthy City Conference, New Haven, CT, March, 2011.
Yousey-Hindes K, Connally NP, Meek J, Durante AJ, Nelson R. Peridomestic Lyme disease
prevention in Connecticut: A three-year, population-based case-control study. Accepted for
presentation at the 134th Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the American Public Health Association,
Boston, November, 2006.
Wurtzel H, Sofair A, Manos MM, Thomas A, Murphy RC, St. Louis T, Durante A, Weber MB, Bower
WA, Terrault N, Bell B. Alcohol Consumption Patters Among Chronic Hepatitis C Patients.
Presented at the 131th Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the American Public Health Association,
San Francisco, California, November, 2003.
Beth P Bell, Andre N Sofair, Michele M Manos, Atif Zaman, Ann Thomas, Rose Murphy, Wendy
Leyden, Thomas E St Louis, Amanda Durante, Nicole Hulten, Michelle Tacariello, Heather L
Wurtzel, William Bower, Victor J. Navarro, Norah Terrault. Newly-Diagnosed Hepatitis C and
Alcohol Use: Findings of Population-Based Sentinel Surveillance In The United States. Presented
at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, Boston,
Massachusetts, October 24 – 28.
Aoun-Barakat L, Durante AJ, Quagliarello V. Risk classification for adverse clinical outcome in
bacterial meningitis in children. Oral presentation at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Infectious
Diseases Society of America, New Orleans, LA, 2000.
Durante AJ. Familial transmission of syphilis in Ibsen’s Wild Duck: A public health interpretation.
Oral presentation at a conference entitled 'Diseases Desperate Grown: Malady in Literature',
Fordham University, 2000.
Durante AJ, Merino FL, Selwyn PA, Marino J, Hadler J, Balacos K. Effect of HIV on TB transmission
in a North Eastern American Urban Community. Poster presentation at the XI International
Conference on AIDS, Vancouver, 1996.