Betsy Foxman

Who is Betsy Foxman?

Betsy Foxman is an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan since 1984, where she is director of the Center for Molecular and Clinical Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, and of the Interdisciplinary Training Program in Infectious Diseases. She also served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, is a member of the Infectious Disease Society of America and of the American College of Epidemiology.

Betsy Foxman was awarded a BSc in Conservation of Natural Resources from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD. in Epidemiology from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health. Her research areas are the transmission, pathogenesis, ecology and evolution of infectious agents, and the transmission of antibiotic resistance among bacteria, particularly E. coli and Group B Streptococcus. Other interests are the role of oral microbiota in dental caries, viral infection and bacterial pneumonia, biofilm growth on medical devices and the dynamics of hospital pathogens.