Social and Spatial Correlates of Infection in the Neonatal ICU
Traditionally risk factors for neonatal infection in the ICU are related to characteristics of the baby (or mom). But, there may be other extrinsic factors at play, such as the provider team (who takes care of which babies) and location within the unit (environmental factors). Infectious disease epidemiology focuses on risk being related to a “triad” of factors including the host (baby), the relationship between the host and the environment (baby and the NICU), the relationship between the host and the agent (baby and the pathogen), and the relationship between the agent and environment (pathogen and the NICU). In this talk, I’ll discuss how this classical view of epidemiology can help identify extrinsic risk factors for infection, and potentially what we can do about them.
Neal D. Goldstein, PhD, MBI is an infectious disease epidemiologist and research fellow at Christiana Care Health System (Newark, DE), and holds an appointment as assistant research professor in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health (Philadelphia, PA). His research spans several disciplines including vaccine-preventable diseases, sexual minority health, pediatric infectious diseases, and women’s health surrounding pregnancy. Most recently, he has focused on translational epidemiology, or moving from knowledge generation to application and advocacy. He writes a science blog, which is available at www.goldsteinepi.com/blog.
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