- Affiliate Assistant Professor, Global Health
- Deputy Director, Office of Communicable Disease Epidemiology, Washington State Department of Health
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Dr. Newman is an epidemiologist and Deputy Director for the Office of Communicable Disease Epidemiology at the Washington State Department of Health. She is the Principal Investigator for the Washington Emerging Infections Program and RESP-NET, a national surveillance system that monitors laboratory-confirmed hospitalizations associated with influenza, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) among children and adults. She is dedicated to building leadership capacity in students and career public health practitioners through teaching and mentorship.
- PhD (University of Washington)
- MHS (Johns Hopkins University)
- BS (University of Wisconsin)
- Disease Surveillance
- Infectious Diseases
- Respiratory Disease
Gurrey S, Dov L, Strick L, Miller JS, Miller D, Pecha M, Newman LP. Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic and a Tuberculosis Outbreak Response in Washington State Prisons. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2023.
Miller JS, Holshue M, Dostal TKH, Newman LP, Lindquist S. COVID-19 Outbreak Among Farmworkers - Okanogan County, Washington, May-August 2020. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2021 Apr 30;70(17):617-621.
Newman LP, Bhat N, Fleming JA, Neuzil KM.Global influenza seasonality to inform country-level vaccine programs: An analysis of WHO FluNet influenza surveillance data between 2011 and 2016. PLoS One. 2018 Feb 21;13(2):e0193263.
Newman LP, Njoroge A, Magaret A, Chohan BH, Gitomea VW, Wald A, Gorstein J, Overbaugh J, Wamalwa D, Maleche-Obimbo E, Nduati R, Farquhar C. Sustained Responses to Measles Revaccination at 24 Months in HIV-Infected Children on Antiretroviral Therapy in Kenya. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2017 Dec;36(12):1148-1155.
Hirve S, Newman LP, Paget J, Azziz-Baumgartner E, Fitzner J, Bhat N, Vandemaele K, Zhang W. Influenza Seasonality in the Tropics and Subtropics - When to Vaccinate? PLoS One. 2016 Apr 27;11(4):e0153003.
Newman LP, Buechler MB, Chohan BH, Njoroge A, Wamalwa D, Farquhar C. T cell anergy and activation are associated with suboptimal humoral responses to measles revaccination in HIV-infected children on anti-retroviral therapy in Nairobi, Kenya. Clin Exp Immunol. 2015 Sep;181(3):451-6.
Newman LP, Njoroge A, Ben-Youssef L, Merkel M, Gatuguta A, Ton Q, Obimbo EM, Wamalwa D, Lohman-Payne B, Richardson BA, Nduati R, Farquhar C. Measles seropositivity in HIV-infected Kenyan children on antiretroviral therapy. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2014 Aug;33(8):843-5.