Maya Nadimpalli

Maya Nadimpalli, PhD, MS

Assistant Professor

Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health

Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

Joint appointed in: Global Health, Epidemiology, and PBEE program

Other affiliations

Tufts' Stuart B. Levy Center for Integrated Management of Antimicrobial Resistance

Previous Positions

Research Assistant Professor and Tufts' CTSI KL2 Scholar, Tufts University, 2020-2022

Education and Training

Postdoctoral training at the Institut Pasteur and the Pickering Lab at Tufts University (now at UC Berkeley)

Ph.D. Environmental Sciences and Engineering at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

M.S. Environmental Sciences and Engineering at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

B.A & Sc Environmental Sciences at McGill University, Montréal, Canada

Read about my research interests here --> Nature Career Q&A

Addi Deisher

MPH in Global Health (May 2026)

Addi is a first year MPH student working on our project in Nairobi, Kenya which aims to characterize the spread of antimicrobial-resistant microbial populations that contaminate chickens sold in open-air markets as well as the guts of healthy community members. Her research interests revolve around all things infectious diseases with particular interests in emerging/re-emerging and neglected diseases.

Madison Schwab

PhD candidate in Population Biology, Ecology, and Evolution

Madison is benchmarking strain tracking tools to assess strain sharing between chickens and young children in peri-urban Lima, Peru. She is especially interested in the population-level transmission dynamics of microbes and ecological drivers of zoonotic spillover events. She also enjoys hiking, swimming, and playing fetch with her dog.

Recent grads

Natalie Olson, PhD in Environmental Health Sciences (August 2025). Currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Université de Montpellier, France.

Courtney Victor, Postdoctoral Fellow (June 2025). Currently an EIS officer in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the US CDC.

Anne Marie Dye, MPH in Environmental Health & Epidemiology (May 2025). Currently a consultant at PMAlliance.

Sweta Balaji, BS in Quantiative Health Sciences (Dec 2024). Currently a MPH student in Biomedical Informatics at Ohio State University.

Cameron Goetgeluck, MPH in Environmental Health & Epidemiology, Certificate in Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology (May 2024). Currently a Rollins Outbreak Analytics Fellow at the Georgia Department of Health.

Shayna Matson, MPH in Global Environmental Health (May 2024). Currently at Alaska Department of Public Health as a Disease Intervention Specialist.

Chanda Mwansa, MPH in Global Health (May 2024). Currently an intern at the PAHO Eastern Caribbean country office on the Communicable Disease Prevention, Control and Elimination team.

Addison Blackmon, MPH in Epidemiology (May 2024). Currently a CDC National Health Care Safety Network Support Fellow.

Dania Hussain, MPH in Global Environmental Health (May 2023). Currently an ORISE fellow at the CDC in the Clinical and Environmental Microbiology Branch.

Lily McNulty, MPH in Global Health, concentration in infectious disease (May 2023). Currently at NORC at the University of Chicago.

Oluwatosin Olojo, MPH in Epidemiology, Infectious Disease certificate (May 2023).

June 2025: Launching KukuSafe in Burma Market with great partners at the University of Nairobi. And, congrats to recent grads Sweta Balaji (BS Quantitative Sciences) and Natalie Olson (PhD Environmental Health Sciences)!

Spring 2024: Congrats to our graduating students Shayna Matson (MPH Global Environmental Health), Samson Alemu Argaw (MPH Global Health), Cameron Goetgeluck (MPH Environmental Health), Chanda Mwansa (MPH Global Health), and Addison Blackmon (MPH Epidemiology)

Spring 2024: Lab hike to see the seasonal diamorpha bloom at Arabia Mountain (left), and welcoming Dr. Miguel Salazar, Fulbright Fellow from the Philippines, to the lab (right)!

Spring 2023: Beautiful day in Atlanta for a lab social! Congratulations to our graduating students Tosin Olojo (MPH Epidemiology), Dania Hussain (MPH Environmental Health), and Lily McNulty (MPH Global Health)