Department of Epidemiology Beryl Koblin Ph.D. Professor [email protected] Telephone: 570-3105 Fax: 570-3385 Research interests Background: Beryl Koblin, Ph.D. is Head of the Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention of the New York Blood Center and adjunct faculty at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. For over a decade, Dr. Koblin has conducted community-based studies of blood-borne infectious diseases among various populations, including MSM, injection drug users and women at risk through heterosexual contact. These studies have led to conducting large-scale clinical trials of HIV vaccines and other prevention interventions. Dr. Koblin received her ScM and PhD in Epidemiology with a concentration in infectious diseases from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.