Education
University of California, Berkeley. University of California, Los Los Angeles
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Betsy Foxman
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Betsy Foxman was awarded a Bachelor of Science in Conservation of Natural Resources from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Doctor of Philosophy. 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 East. 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.
Foxman is a disciple of Darwinian medicine and believes that therapy can only be intelligently applied if the evolutionary history of pathogens is understood.
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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.
