Allison Chamberlain
Research Associate Professor
Faculty, Epidemiology
Dr. Chamberlain has a background in biodefense policy, public health preparedness and vaccine promotion. Her research interests are in public health preparedness & practice, vaccine promotion, implementation science and public health ethics. She is particularly interested in helping healthcare providers become more adept at communicating public health-related topics to their patients.
Dr. Chamberlain directs the Emory Center for Public Health Preparedness and Research and the Emory COVID-19 Response Collaborative (ECRC). Established in June 2020 through a grant from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, the mission of the ECRC is to put Rollins faculty, staff and students into the service of health department partners working to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in Georgia. Her leadership of the ECRC is informed tremendously by her work as an epidemiology consultant with the Fulton County Board of Health (FCBOH), a role which she has held since 2017. In her work with FCBOH, she assists the county with COVID and non-COVID-related data analysis needs while working to forge a stronger academic-public health partnership between Emory and the FCBOH. She loves getting students involved in her research projects at FCBOH; example projects include: assisting with revamping the county's points of dispensing (POD) plan for mass countermeasure distribution, examining risk factors for recurrent syphilis among Fulton County residents, identifying predictors of HIV seroconversion among women seeking care at the FCBOH clinic and recruiting study participants for a PrEP for HIV-focused survey at the 2018 Atlanta pride events. More about her interest in academic-public health partnerships can be found here: My Life As a Pracademic.
Dr. Chamberlain has also served as the academic advisor to the Emory Student Outbreak Response Team (SORT) since 2015. In this role, she sits on SORT's steering committee, providing guidance to the SORT leadership regarding community partnerships, project opportunities and ways to more effectively extend their training, service and research capacities.
Contact Information
1518 Clifton Road, NE
Atlanta , GA 30322
Phone: 404-727-6159
Fax: 404-727-8737
Areas of Interest
- Group-Randomized Trials
- Immunizations/Vaccines
- Maternal and Child Health
- Public Health Practice
- Public Health Preparedness and Response
- Vaccines
Education
- BA 2004, University of Virginia
- MS 2007, Georgetown University
- PhD 2015, Emory University
Courses Taught
- EPI 564: PH Preparedness & Practice
Affiliations & Activities
Faculty advisor, Emory Student Outbreak Response Team (SORT)
Epidemiology consultant, Fulton County Board of Health
Publications
- Hargreaves AL, Nowak G, Frew P, Hinman AR, Orenstein WA, Mendel J, Aikin A, Nadeau JA, McNutt LA, Chamberlain AT, Omer SB, Randall LA, Bednarczyk RA, 2020, Adherence to Timely Vaccinations in the United States., Pediatrics, 145,
- Harrington P, Onwubiko U, Qi M, Holland DP, Wortley P, Chamberlain AT, 2020, Factors associated with HIV seroconversion among women attending an urban health clinic in the South: a matched case control study., AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 34, 124-131
- Goggins ER, Chamberlain AT, Kim TG, Young MR, Jamieson DJ, Haddad LB, 2020, Patterns of screening, infection and treatment if Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhea in pregnancy, Obstetrics & Gynecology, 135, 799-807
- Crawford ND, Albarran T, Chamberlain A, Hopkins R, Josma D, Morris J, Onwubiko UN., 2020, Willingness to Discuss and Screen for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis in Pharmacies Among Men Who Have Sex With Men, J Pharm Pract, ,
- Chamberlain AT, Limaye RJ, O’Leary ST, Frew PM, Brewer SE, Spina CI, Ellingson MK, Dudley MZ, Orenstein WA, Donnelly MA, Riley LE, Ault KA, Salmon DA, Omer SB. , 2019, Development and acceptability of a video-based vaccine promotion tutorial for obstetric care providers, Vaccine, 37, 2532-2536
- Loretan C, Chamberlain AT, Sanchez T, Zlotorzynska M, Jones J., 2019, Trends and characteristics associated with HPV vaccination uptake among young men who have sex with me in the United States, 2014 – 2017., Sex Transm Dis, 46, 465-473
- Boulet SL, Chamberlain AT, Biswas HH, Jamieson DJ, 2019, Trends in Infant Pertussis Hospitalizations in the United States, 2009 – 2017, JAMA, 322, 2134-2136
- Ellingson, M. Chamberlain, A.T., 2018, Beyond the verbal: Pregnant women's preferences for receiving influenza and Tdap vaccine information from their obstetric care providers., Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, ,
- Bednarczyk RA, Chamberlain A, Mathewson K, Salmon DA, Omer SB. , 2018, Practice-, Provider-, and Patient-level interventions to improve preventive care: Development of the P3 model., Preventive Medicine Reports, 11, 131-138
- Ehret, K.M., Chamberlain, A.T., Berkelman, R.L., Fridkin, S.K. , 2018, Preventing hospital-acquired Legionnaires' Disease: A snapshot of clinical practices and water management approaches in US acute care hospitals , Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, ,
- Ellingson, M.K. Bonk, C.M. Chamberlain, A.T., 2017, A survey-based study of Zika virus communication preferences among pregnant women in Georgia, United States, BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth, 17, 325
- Chamberlain, A.T. Lavery, J.V. White, A. Omer, S.B., 2017, Ethics of maternal vaccination., Science, 358, 452-453
- Chamberlain, A.T. Lehnert, J.D. Berkelman, R.L., 2017, The 2015 New York City Legionnaires' Disease Outbreak: A Case Study on a History-Making Outbreak, Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 23, 410-416
- Lehnert, J.D., Ellingson, M.K., Goryoka, G.W., Kasturi, R., Maier, E., Chamberlain, A.T., 2017, Use of Obstetric Practice Web Sites to Distribute Zika Virus Information to Pregnant Women During a Zika Virus Outbreak, Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, ,
- Chamberlain, A.T., Koram, A.L., Whitney, E.A., Berkelman, R.L., Omer, S.B., 2016, Lack of availability of Antenatal Vaccination Information on Obstetric Care Practice Web Sites., Obstetrics & Gynecology., 127, 119-26
- Chamberlain AT, Berkelman RL, Ault KA, Rosenberg ES, Orenstein WA, Omer SB, 2016, Trends in reasons for non-receipt of influenza vaccination during pregnancy in Georgia, 2004-2011. , Vaccine, [Epub ahead of print],
- Chamberlain, A.T., Seib, K., Ault, K.A., Orenstein, W. A., Frew, P. M., Malik, F., Cortés, M., Cota, P., Whitney, E.A.S., Flowers, L.C., Berkelman, R.L., Omer, S.B. , 2015, Factors Associated with Intention to Receive Influenza and Tetanus, Diphtheria, and Acellular Pertussis (Tdap) Vaccines during Pregnancy: A Focus on Vaccine Hesitancy and Perceptions of Disease Severity and Vaccine Safety., PLoS Currents: Outbreaks, 7,
- Omer, S.B., Phadke, V.K., Bednarczyk, R.A., Chamberlain, A.T., Brosseau, J.L., Orenstein, W.A., 2015, Impact of Statins on Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness Against Medically Attended Acute Respiratory Illness, Journal of Infectious Disease, pii: jiv457,
- Chamberlain, A.T., Seib, K., Ault, K.A., Rosenberg, E.S., Frew, P.M., Cortés, M, Whitney, E.A.S., Berkelman, R.L., Orenstein, W.A., Omer, S.B. , 2015, Improving influenza and Tdap vaccination during pregnancy: a cluster-randomized trial of a multi-component antenatal vaccine promotion package in late influenza season. , Vaccine, ,
- Chamberlain AT, Seib K, Wells K, Hannan C, Orenstein WA, Whitney EAS, Hinman AR, Berkelman RL, Omer SB., 2012, Perspectives of Immunization Program Managers during the 2009 – 2010 H1N1 Vaccination Campaign: Use of Existing Systems and Structures to Manage Vaccine and Collaborations with Emergency Preparedness Partners., Journal of Biosecurity and Bioterrorism, 10, 142-50