Heather Tate PhD., MS
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Division of Animal and Food Microbiology
Biography
Dr. Heather Tate is an epidemiologist in the Division of Animal and Food Microbiology. She received her PhD in Biomedical Science from New York University, her MS degree in Epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and joined the FDA in 2008. Her research supports the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS), a U. S. public health monitoring system that tracks antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in foodborne and other intestinal bacteria using a One Health approach.
Research
- Using molecular microbiologic information to accurately determine trends in resistance
- Identifying environmental and genetic risk factors and antimicrobial use practices that influence the risk of resistance
- Describing the spatial and temporal patterns of resistance within the OneHealth framework using epidemiologic models
Select Publications
Tate, H., Ayers, S., Nyirabahizi, E., Li, C., Borenstein, S., Young, S., Rice-Trujillo, C., Saint Fleurant, S., Bodeis-Jones, S., Li, X., Tobin-D'Angelo, M., Volkova, V., Hardy, R., Mingle, L., M'ikanatha, N. M., Ruesch, L., Whitehouse, C. A., Tyson, G. H., Strain, E., & McDermott, P. F. (2022). Prevalence of Antimicrobial Resistance in Select Bacteria From Retail Seafood-United States, 2019. Frontiers in microbiology, 13, 928509. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.928509
Tate H., Li C, Nyirabahizi E, Tyson GH, Zhao S, Rice-Trujillo C, Jones SB, Ayers S, M'ikanatha NM, Hanna S, Ruesch L, Cavanaugh ME, Laksanalamai P, Mingle L, Matzinger SR, Mcdermott PF; A National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System Survey of Antimicrobial-Resistant Foodborne Bacteria Isolated from Retail Veal in the United States. J Food Prot 1 October 2021; 84 (10): 1749–1759. doi: https://doi.org/10.4315/JFP-21-005
Yin, X., M'ikanatha, N. M., Nyirabahizi, E., McDermott, P. F., & Tate, H. (2021). Antimicrobial resistance in non-Typhoidal Salmonella from retail poultry meat by antibiotic usage-related production claims - United States, 2008-2017. International journal of food microbiology, 342, 109044. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2021.109044
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