Email: shnperry@stanford.edu

Human Security

Expertise

- Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Background

With Professor John Lewis, Dr. Perry organized the Bay Area Tuberculosis (TB) Consortium to engage North Korean public health officials on mutual interests in tuberculosis control. From 2007-2011, she directed the Stanford DPRK Tuberculosis Diagnostics Project, a collaboration with the Nuclear Threat Initiative, Christian Friends of Korea, and the World Health Organization to develop new laboratory capacity for detection of drug resistant TB in DPRK. She has completed several trips to the DPRK. Her papers on TB and the DPRK include Perry S, Linton H and Schoolnik G. "Tuberculosis and North Korea". Science (January 21, 2011); Perry S, Linton H, Gresham L, Schoolnik G. "Engaging North Korea on Mutual Interests in Tuberculosis Control." Academic Paper Series, Korea Economic Institute (February 24, 2011); Perry, S. "The Stanford North Korean Tuberculosis Project", pp 119-124, in US-DPRK Educational Exchanges: Assessment and Future Strategy (eds, Gi-Wook Shin and Karin J. Lee), Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University (2011; http://aparc.stanford.edu) and Perry S, "Health care infrastructure challenges in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea." USC Center for Strategic International Studies. (August 2011)

Biography

Dr. Perry completed her PhD in Public Health at the University of California, San Diego and her post-doctoral training in infectious disease epidemiology at Stanford University School of Medicine, where she was a recipient of an NIH career development award. With several international research collaborations, she has published extensively in the scientific literature on chronic infections of the developing world, and is an accomplished statistician. She is a consultant with the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Stanford, and also serves as scientific program coordinator for a tuberculosis project in Central Asia. Her research interests include coordination of international health and defense policy, and loss of TB control as a legacy of the post-communist economic realignment.

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