Susan Fisher-Hoch
Professor Non-Tenure Research
956/755-0635
Regional Academic Health Center
One West University Blvd, SPH Building, S1.330, Brownsville, TX 78520
About
I am trained as a physician with a doctoral degree in epidemiology from London University with Membership of the Royal College of Pathology in virology. After a long career at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention working with viral hemorrhagic fevers, in poor communities in developing countries. I designed and directed the French Biosafety 4 Level principally for studies of Ebola and Lassa fever for which I received the Légion d’Honneur. I joined the Brownsville campus of the School of Public Health to work in health disparity population health in 2001. In 2004 I helped found the Cameron County Hispanic Cohort (n=5000) which I direct. This is a randomly selected community based cohort of health disparity Mexican Americans. Using these data I have collaborative programs in diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancers understudied minorities with a wide range of collaborators from major institutions across the country, funded by several NIH and CPRIT grants, and having produced more than 60 publications. I teach international epidemic investigation course on line based on real life outbreaks.
Center Affiliation
Hispanic Health Research Center
Research Interests
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular and Chronic Diseases
- Clinical Trials
- Epidemiology
- Infectious Disease