Research Areas

The Division of Infectious Diseases conducts groundbreaking research in multiple areas, including:

Antimicrobial Stewardship

​A hospital-wide Antimicrobial Stewardship Program optimizes antimicrobial use with the intention of stabilizing antimicrobial resistance, improving patient safety, and decreasing antimicrobial costs.

Bacterial Pathogenesis and Antimicrobial Drug Resistance

Research in the Division of Infectious Diseases on antimicrobial resistance and pathogenesis centers on both Gram-positive and Gram-negative organisms.

Global Health

The faculty affiliated with the Division of Infectious Diseases have diverse research interests in international and global health.

HIV Prevention and Treatment

The goals of the Columbia Research Unit (CRU) are to set the standards of care for people living with HIV and help speed development of a vaccine to prevent HIV infection.

Health Equity

Dissemination and application of epidemiologic and policy research, and implementation science based on an equity framework

Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Prevention

The Department of Infection Prevention & Control (IP&C) at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) works closely with the Division of Infectious Diseases in infection prevention and hospital epidemiology.

Malaria

Malaria Drug Resistance, Pathogenesis, and Drug Discovery

Research in the division on malaria focuses on mechanisms of P. falciparum multidrug resistance and research into new antimalarials and elucidation of their modes of action.

Microbial Genomics and Microbiome Research

Research focuses on the contribution of discrete microbial genetic traits to pathogenesis, drug resistance, and transmission of single bacterial species as well as of microbial communities.