Professional Summary
2008-present Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan
2006-2008 Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan
2003-2005 Associate Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health, U.C. Berkeley (Divisions of Environmental Health Sciences and Epidemiology)
1998-2003 Assistant Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health, U.C. Berkeley (Divisions of Environmental Health Sciences and Epidemiology)
Courses Taught
EPID600: Introduction to Epidemiology
EPID602: Foundations in infectious disease transmission modeling
Education
Ph.D., University of California Berkeley/San Francisco, 1992
M.P.H., University of California, Berkeley, 1991
B.S., University of California, Berkeley, 1982
Research Interest & Projects
Dr. Eisenberg studies infectious disease epidemiology with a focus on waterborne and vectorborne diseases. His broad research interests integrates theoretical work in developing disease transmission models and empirical work in designing and conducting epidemiology studies. Specifically he has been interested in the environmental determinants of infectious diseases, and currently has a project in Ecuador studying how changes in the social and natural environment, mediated by road construction, affect the epidemiology of pathogens causing diarrheal diseases. Dr. Eisenberg also has an ongoing collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene group exploring how to integrate disease transmission models and multi-country survey data, to help inform regional and national decisions on public health policy making. Dr. Eisenberg's domestic interest has been focused on the development of a new microbial risk assessment framework that shifts the traditional approach of individual-based static models to population-based dynamic models. In coordination with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), this work has led him to apply these disease transmission models to assess the public health risk from exposures to microbial agents in drinking waters, recreational waters, and biosolids.
Selected Publications
Trostle, J.A., Hubbard, A., Scott, J., Cevallos, W., Bates, S.J., Eisenberg, J.N.S. (May, 2008). Raising the level of analysis of food-borne outbreaks: Food-sharing networks in rural coastal Ecuador. Epidemiology, 19(3), 384-390.
Bates, S.J., Trostle, J., Cevallos, W.T. , Hubbard, A., Eisenberg, J.N.S. (2007). Relating diarrheal disease to social networks and the geographic configuration of communities in rural Ecuador. American Journal of Epidemiology, 166(9), 1088-1095.
Eisenberg, J.N.S., Desai, M.A., Levy, K., Bates, S.J., Liang, S., Naumoff, K., Scott, J.C. (August, 2007). Environmental determinants of infectious disease: A framework for tracking causal links & guiding public health research. Environmental Health Perspectives, 115(8), 1216-1223.
Eisenberg, J.N.S., Scott, J., Porco, T.C. (May 2007). Integrating disease control strategies: balancing water sanitation and hygiene interventions to reduce diarrheal disease burden American Journal of Public Health, 97(5), 846-852.
Eisenberg, J.N.S., Cevallos, W., Ponce, K., Levy, K., Bates, S., Scott, J., Hubbard, A., Viera, N., Segovia, R., Espinel, M., Trueba, G., Riley, L., Trostle, J. (2006). Environmental change and infectious disease: How new roads affect the transmission of diarrheal pathogens in rural Ecuador. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(51), 19460-19465.
Eisenberg, J.N.S., Hubbard, A., Wade, T.J., Sylvester, M.J., LeChevallier, M.W., Levy, D.A, Colford, J.M.Jr. (August, 2006). Inferences drawn from a risk assessment compared directly to a randomized trial of a home drinking water intervention. Environmental Health Perspectives, 114(8), 1199-1204.
Soller, J.A., Eisenberg, J.N.S., DeGeorge, J., Cooper, R., Tchobanoglous, G., Olivieri, A.W. (March, 2006). A public health evaluation of recreational water impairment. Journal of Water and Health, 4(1), 1-19.
Eisenberg J.N.S., Lei X., Hubbard A.H., Brookhart, M.A., Colford Jr. J. M. (January, 2005). The role of disease transmission and conferred immunity in outbreaks: Analysis of the 1993 Cryptosporidium outbreak in Milwaukee. American Journal of Epidemiology, 161(1), 62-72.
Eisenberg, J.N.S., Soller, J.A., Scott, J., Eisenberg, D.M., Colford, J.M. (2004). A dynamic model to assess microbial health risks associated with beneficial uses of biosolids. Risk Analysis, 24(1), 221-236.
Eisenberg, J.N.S., Lewis, B.L., Porco, T.C., Hubbard, A.H., Colford Jr., J.M. (July, 2003). Bias due to secondary transmission in estimation of attributable risk reported from intervention trials. Epidemiology, 14(4), 442-450.
Professional Affiliations
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
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