Megan Coffee | Communicable Disease Advisor
International Rescue Committee

Megan Coffee, MD, PhD  is the International Rescue Committee communicable disease advisor. She is a clinical assistant professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and an infectious disease attending physician at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. Her research focuses on machine learning approaches to emerging and neglected disease outbreaks, including AMR, mpox, and TB. At the IRC, she has worked on leading research on AMR in humanitarian crises in Northeastern Nigeria, South Sudan, and Yemen. The IRC with the USAID Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance has organized a Technical Advisory Group on AMR in Humanitarian Crises with various experts in humanitarian action. She teaches on global outbreaks in low resource settings  at Columbia University. She coordinated Ebola clinical response with the IRC and has represented the IRC at the UN, CDC, and WHO. She ran a tuberculosis unit at the general hospital in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti for years after the 2010 earthquake and continues to support telemedicine and caregiving through Ti Kay, an organization she and others in Haiti run. She completed her undergraduate and MD at Harvard University, her PhD (DPhil) at Oxford University in mathematical modeling of infectious diseases, her internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and her ID fellowship at the University of California (UC) at San Francisco with research at UC Berkeley.