Harvard Prevention Epicenter

Key points

  • First funded in 1997.
  • The Harvard Prevention Epicenter works to prevent and improve the management of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).

Overview

The Harvard Prevention Epicenter at the Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School/Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, includes collaborations with Mass General Brigham, HCA Healthcare, the University of California Irvine, the University of Iowa, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, California State University Sacramento, Emory University and Duke University.

Research study areas

  • Preventing and improving the management of HAIs.
  • Developing, analyzing and improving HAI surveillance processes and data to:
    • Identify and explain treatment patterns, predictors and outcomes.
    • Decrease unnecessary antibiotic prescribing.
    • Evaluate HAI prevention activities.
  • And more.

Principal investigators

Michael Klompas, MD, MPH and Richard Platt, MD

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National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID)