Sam Telford

Sam Telford ScD Professor, Department of Infectious Disease and Global Health, Tufts University and Director, New England Regional Biosafety Laboratory. Dr. Telford is an epidemiologist focusing on vector-borne infections, mainly those transmitted by ticks. His 40 year career has contributed to the development and approval of the first human Lyme disease vaccine, incriminated new American agents of tick borne disease (Anaplasma phagocytophilum; deer tick virus; Borrelia miyamotoi); and described the ecology and epidemiology of these infections. Dr. Telford’s laboratory is currently funded by NIH grants on the epidemiology of Lyme disease and the biology of human babesiosis. He advises local, state, and national organizations on public health interventions against tick and mosquito-borne infection.