Dr. Sorrell is a Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. For the last 10 years, Dr. Sorrell has applied her technical laboratory training in virology and experience in government to contribute to global health security as a practitioner and an academic. Her current research portfolio combines the disciplines of basic science, biosafety, and health systems strengthening to address infectious disease threats whether they be novel, emerging, or re-emerging. Her work focuses on developing and applying a variety of methodologies to map, assess, and address both the structure and function of health systems. Dr. Sorrell collaborates across the US government, international organizations, and ministries around the world to identify elements required to support health systems strengthening and laboratory capacity-building for disease detection, reporting, risk assessment, and response. She is also interested in operational and implementation research questions related to sustainable health systems strengthening, with an emphasis on the prevention, management, and control of infectious diseases in humanitarian situations, and particularly countries and regions affected by conflict.

 

In addition to her research, Dr. Sorrell has designed and taught a number of courses on emerging infectious disease threats and disease detection and response in conflict settings. She previously served as the Director of Graduate Studies for the Biohazardous Threat Agents & Emerging Infectious Diseases MSc Program at Georgetown University.