Faculty Appointment: Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Additional Title: Faculty member in the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health
Specialty: Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Social Epidemiology, Psychoneuroimmunology
Academic Office Address: School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, 109 Observatory St, Room 3659, ?Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2029
734-615-9213: Office; 734-998-0006: Fax
E-mail: aielloa@umich.edu

Professional Summary
2005- present: Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health
2003-2005: Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar in the Center for Social Epidemiology & Population Health at the University of Michigan
2002-2003: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) training fellow in the Center for Infectious Disease and Epidemiological Research at Columbia University - Mailman School of Public Health
1998-1999: Emerging Infectious Disease fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Courses Taught
EPID672: Social Determinants of Infectious Disease Seminar ?
EPID880: The Epidemiological Links between Infection and Chronic Disease

Education
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2003?
M.S., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill-School of Public Health, 1998?
B.S., University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1995

Research Interest & Projects
Hand hygiene, antibacterial soap use, and other non-pharmaceutical interventions for reducing infectious diseases
• CDC funded intervention trial assessing the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (face masks and alcohol-based hand sanitizers) for reducing the incidence of seasonal influenza in the community setting
• Meta analyses examining the effectiveness of hand hygiene interventions (alcohol-based hand sanitizers, antibacterial soap, and plain soap) in the community setting
• Intervention studies examining the impact of antibacterial cleaning and hygiene products on antibiotic resistance
• Assessment of hand hygiene practices in the clinical setting
Pandemic preparedness in the US
• Comparison of commercial rapid influenza tests to determine the sensitivity and specificity of timely influenza results
• Assessing influenza pandemic preparedness knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs among university students
• Examining sociodemographic patterns of influenza vaccine use among older US Latinos
Socioeconomic status, stress and infection
• Examining whether socioeconomic disadvantage influences pathogen burden and immune response to pathogens implicated in cardiovascular disease among diverse race/ethnic populations
• Assessing whether socioeconomic disadvantage, discrimination and other psychosocial stressors influences immune response to specific pathogens (cytomegalovirus, herpes simplex virus, Helicobacter pylori, and Chlamydia pneumonia) among diverse race/ethnic populations
• Examining the impact of neighborhood socioeconomic position and cultural orientation on infections and cognition
• Identifying the links between stress, respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses among university students
The link between infections and chronic diseases in the US
• Examining whether immune response to cytomegalovirus is associated with cardiovascular disease, cognitive and physical decline, and mortality
• Assessing whether pathogen burden is associated with metabolic syndrome, obesity, cardiovascular disease, cognition, physical functioning and mortality
• Uncovering whether pathogen burden and inflammation mediates the relationship between socioeconomic position, acculturation and health outcomes
• Identifying the influence of gene-virus interactions on cognitive and cardiovascular health
• Examining whether influenza vaccination is protective against cardiovascular disease

Selected Publications
Dowd, J.B., Haan, M.N., Moore, K.A., Blythe, L., Aiello, A.E. (2008). Socioeconomic Gradients in Immune Response to Latent Infection. American Journal of Epidemiology, 167(1), 112-20.
Aiello, A.E., Larson, E.L., Levy, S.B. (2007). Consumer antibacterial soaps: effective or just risky? Clinical Infectious Diseases, 45 Suppl 2, S137-47. .
Cohen, J., Wilson, M., Aiello, A.E. (2007). Analysis of social epidemiology research on infectious diseases: historical patterns and future opportunities. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 61(12), 1021-7.
Aiello, A.E., King, N.B., Foxman, B. (2006). Antimicrobial Resistance and the Ethics of Drug Development American Journal of Public Health, 96(11), 1910-14.
Aiello, A.E., Haan, M.N., Moore, K.A., Blythe, L., Gonzalez, J.K., Jagust, W. (2006). The influence of latent viral infection on rate cognitive decline over four years. Journal of American Geriatrics Society, 54(7), 1046-54.
Aiello, A.E., Lowy, F. L., Wright, L.N., Larson, E.L. (2006). Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus among US prisoners and military personnel: A review and recommendations for future studies. Lancet Infectious Diseases, 6(6), 335-41.
Aiello, A.E., Marshall, B., Levy, S.B, Della-Latta, P., Larson, E. (2005). Antibacterial cleaning products and drug resistance. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 11(10), 1565-70.
Diez-Roux, A. & Aiello, A.E. (2005). Multilevel analysis in infectious diseases. Journal of Infectious Diseases, 191, S25-S33.
Aiello, A.E. & Larson, E.L. (2003). Antibiotic resistance in the community setting: an assessment of antibacterial cleaning and hygiene products as an emerging risk factor. Lancet Infectious Diseases, 3(8), 501-6.
Aiello, A.E. & Larson, E.L. (2002). What is the evidence for a causal link between hygiene and infections? Lancet Infectious Diseases., 2(2), 103-110.

Professional Affiliations
Infectious Disease Society of America
American Society for Microbiology
Society for Epidemiological Research
International Society of Neurovirology
American Public Health Association
Latino Faculty and Staff Association
Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science
American College of Epidemiology Minority Affairs Committee