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Brittany Kmush

Brittany Kmush

Contact Information:

blkmush@syr.edu

315.443.1541

430D Barclay

Brittany Kmush

Associate Professor and Graduate Director, Public Health Department


Courses

  • 2025 Spring
    • PHP 704 Infectious Disease: Epidemiology and Control
    • PHP 413 Introduction to Healthcare Quality Improvement
  • 2024 Fall
    • PHP 668 Applied Epidemiology
    • PHP 401 Epidemiology
  • 2023 Fall
    • PHP 668 Applied Epidemiology
    • PHP 401 Epidemiology
  • 2023 Summer
    • SCN 057 Pre-Med & Health Professions
  • 2023 Spring
    • PHP 401 Epidemiology
    • PHP 704 Infectious Disease: Epidemiology and Control

Highest degree earned

Ph.D., Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 2016

Research Grant Awards and Projects

"New York State Wastewater Surveillance Center of Excellence", Sponsored by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/DHHS.

"Antimicrobial Shape Memory Polymer Foams for Rapid Hemorrhage Control and Infection Prevention in Traumatic Wounds", Sponsored by Department of Defense.

"Shape Memory Polymer Foams for Hemorrhage Control in Traumatic Wounds", Sponsored by National Institutes of Health (NIH)/DHHS.

"A Phase II,Randomized, Observer-blinded, Placebo Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Safety and Immunogenicity of Hecolin in Healthy Pregnant Women between Gestational Age 14-34 weeks and Non-Pregnant Women of 16-45 years old."", Sponsored by Thrasher Research Fund.

"Technical Assistance for HEV Testing in PRiSMA", Sponsored by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

"HEV diagnostics for the WHO Essential in vitro Diagnostics List - SYR", Sponsored by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

"ELC Wastewater Surveillance", Sponsored by Department of Health & Human Services.

"Hepatitis E Vaccine Roadmap", Sponsored by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

"The SARS2 Early Warning Wastewater Surveillance Platform", Sponsored by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

"Establishing an In Vitro Embryotoxicity Risk Classification System Based on Human Cardiac Organoid Model", Sponsored by National Institutes of Health (NIH)/DHHS.

Selected Publications

Presentations and Events

Hill, D. T., Dunham, C., Moran, J., Zhou, Y., Collins, M., Kmush, B. L., Larsen, D. A., Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences, "Translating wastewater surveillance data into public health terms: Methods for estimating the effective reproduction number (Rt" (June 24, 2024)

Larsen, D., Hill, D., Alazawi, M., Chatila, D., Faruolo, C., Ferro, B., Godinez, A., Hanson, B., Insaf, T., Lang, D., Neigel, D., Neyra, M., Pulido, N., Wilder, M., Yang, N., Kmush, B. L., Green, H., "Considerations in designing wastewater (environmental) surveillance for detecting emerging infectious diseases: a case study of poliovirus in New York State" (June 26, 2023 - June 27, 2023)

Hill, D. T., Alazawi, M., Moran, E., Bennet, J., Bradley, I., Collins, M., Gobler, C., Green, H., Insaf, T., Kmush, B. L., Neigel, D., Raymond, S., Wang, M., Ye, Y., Larsen, D. A., Testing the Waters, "Wastewater surveillance provides 10-days forecasting of COVID-19 hospitalizations superior to cases and test positivity: A prediction study. " (June 26, 2023 - June 27, 2023)

Debes, A., Kmush, B. L., The Second International Hepatitis E Symposium, "Overview of Hepatitis E Virus Diagnostics" (April 28, 2023 - April 30, 2023)

The Second International Hepatitis E Symposium, "The Global Epidemiology of Hepatitis E Virus" (April 28, 2023 - April 30, 2023)

Dinero, R., Shanguhyia, N., Kmush, B. L., The Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Meeting, "Predicting Attitudes Toward Mitigation Interventions and Social Distancing Behaviors at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US" (February 23, 2023 - February 25, 2023)

Walia, B., Sanders, S., Ehrlich, J. A., Graham, M., Kmush, B. L., Robinson, C., Seibold, C., Southern Economic Association's 92nd Annual Meeting, "An Examination of the Predictors of Professional Athlete Misconduct" (November 19, 2022 - November 21, 2022)

Ehrlich, J. A., Miranda, M., Alfonso, I., Kmush, B. L., Walia, B., Sanders, S., Southern Economic Association's 92nd Annual Meeting, "Professional Football Players' Risk of Death from Repeated Head Impacts" (November 19, 2022 - November 21, 2022)

Bernasconi, A., Ahmed, K. A., Debes, A., Kmush, B. L., 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, "A Literature Review of the Clinical Accuracy of Hepatitis E Diagnostics" (October 30, 2022 - November 3, 2022)

Kmush, B. L., J. L., Marti, M., Ciglenecki, I., Zaman, K., Fyezah, J., Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, "Current State of Hepatitis E: Global Epidemiology, Evidence, and Vaccine Policy" (October 30, 2022 - November 3, 2022)

Nabbosa, G. N., Lane, S., Kmush, B. L., Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, "The association that gender roles have with health seeking behavior for women in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda" (November 17, 2021 - November 21, 2021)

Walia, B., Kmush, B. L., Sanders, S., Ehrlich, J. A., APHA's 2020 VIRTUAL Annual Meeting and Expo, "Age at league entry, ability, and mortality among former NFL athletes" (October 24, 2020 - October 28, 2020)

Kmush, B. L., Mackowski, M., Walia, B., Sanders, S., Ehrlich, J. A., Eleventh International Conference on Sport & Society, "A Logistic Regression Analysis of Reported Concussion Risk among NCAA FBS Football Players" (June 18, 2020 - June 19, 2020)

Kmush, B. L., Hilton, M., Walia, B., Sanders, S., Ehrlich, J. A., Labor and Employment Relations Association 72nd Annual Meeting, "A Logistic Regression Analysis of Reported Concussion Risk among NCAA FBS Football Players" (June 13, 2020 - June 16, 2020)

Salmon, K., Shin, D., Kmush, B. L., Walia, B., Bellows, A. C., Larsen, D. A., Annual Nutrition Science Meeting, "Evidence of Declining Dietary Diversity Among Children Aged 1–5 Years Between 2005 and 2017 in Lower-Income Countries" (June 1, 2020 - June 4, 2020)

Honors and Accolades

Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence - Outstanding Group Contributions to the Student Experience and University Initiatives, Syracuse University: One University Awards (2021)

Chancellor’s Medal, Syracuse University: One University Awards (2021)

Faculty of the Year for Service Award, Falk College (2021)

Thesis Research Publication Award, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2018)

Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health (2017)