Faculty
Catriona Bradshaw, MMBS (Hons), PhD, FAChSHM, FAHMS
Thursday, July 17, 2025 (09:00 a.m.) – Challenging the Paradigm to Achieve Cure: Involving Partners in the Treatment and Prevention of Bacterial Vaginosis
Professor Catriona Bradshaw, MMBS (Hons), PhD, FAChSHM, FAHMS, is a clinician researcher, NHMRC Leadership Fellow and Head of Research Translation and Mentorship at Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Central Clinical School, Monash University and Alfred Hospital. She leads a programme that focuses on translational research to improve treatment and control of STIs, including the development and implementation of resistance diagnostics, antimicrobial resistance and stewardship in STIs, and interventions to optimise the vaginal microbiome.
Dana Meaney-Delman MD, MPH
Friday, July 18, 2025 (08:30 a.m.) – Measles Returns
Dana Meaney-Delman MD, MPH was most recently the Acting Center Director for the National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she spent the last 13 years working on clinical guidelines for infectious diseases that affect women. Prior to her position at CDC, she was on faculty at Emory University in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics and she will be returning to Emory as a Full Professor In September 2025. Dr, Meaney-Delman completed her residency at Albert Einstein School of medicine in NY, and both her undergraduate and Medical School at SUNY Stonybrook.
Haben Debessai, MD, FACOG
Friday, July 18, 2025 (08:30 a.m.) – Measles Returns
Dr. Haben Debessai is a board-certified Obstetrician-gynecologist in Atlanta, GA. She completed undergraduate education at the University of Michigan and completed her medical degree at Michigan State University, after which she completed residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Emory University in 2023. She is currently a Gilstrap Fellow at the CDC Foundation and additionally serves as an Emory Adjunct Instructor at Grady Health System. She works in the Division of Birth Defects and Infant Disorders at the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disorders and also works closely with the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC in the area of maternal immunization.
Kristen Upson, MPH, PhD
Saturday, July 19, 2025 (08:30 a.m.) – Tampons as a Novel Source of Environmental Chemical Exposure: Importance of Infectious Disease Gynecology
Dr. Kristen Upson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University. Dr. Upson is an epidemiologist whose research intersects gynecologic and environmental health. Her innovative research program focuses on environmental risk factors for endometriosis, uterine fibroids, and adenomyosis. A vital aspect of her research program is the investigation of common, everyday factors unique to reproductive-age individuals that may increase toxic metal body burden: hormonal contraception, heavy menstrual bleeding, diet, iron deficiency, and menstrual products. She is currently the Principal Investigator of an NIH R01-funded study from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to investigate injectable hormonal contraceptive use and toxic metal lead concentrations in young women using data from the Kampala Women’s Bone Study in Uganda.
Dr. Upson received her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Washington and completed postdoctoral training at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH.