Rate My Professor Hilary Babcock

Her research interests include prevention of infection transmission in healthcare settings, particularly respiratory viral infections, healthcare worker and patient risks for infections, and studies of aerosol generation and pathogen transmission risks in collaboration with engineering partners. She attends on the bone and joint/orthopedic infection inpatient consult service. Babcock is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (FIDSA) and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (FSHEA), serving as SHEA president in 2019. She co-chairs the CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), having joined in 2013, and is a member of IDSA’s Inclusion, Diversity, Access and Equity Task Force, the American Medical Women’s Association faculty advisory board, and the Forum for Women in Medicine Steering Committee. As a CDC-funded investigator, she has authored key publications such as “Characterization of Aerosols Generated During Patient Care Activities” (Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2017), and MMWR reports on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness among healthcare personnel (2021). She mentors students, residents, fellows, and junior faculty in infection prevention, occupational health, clinical research, and orthopedic infections, contributing significantly to the field of medicine through her leadership and research impact.