The Department of Epidemiology is pleased to welcome assistant professor Dr. Timileyin Adediran, PhD, MPH, CIC, who joined the faculty in November 2025.

Dr. Adediran earned her BA in Biology and Health Administration and Public Policy with a minor in Sociology from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She then completed her MPH at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, followed by her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Maryland, Baltimore Graduate School in 2021, where her dissertation focused on the epidemiology of patient-to-patient transmission of MRSA among critical care patients.

After completing her doctoral training, Dr. Adediran held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan Medical School from 2021 to 2025, where she was supported by the National Institute on Aging’s T32 Epidemiology of Aging training grant and later received an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (F32) fellowship from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.

Dr. Adediran describes herself as an infectious disease epidemiologist whose research interests focus on understanding how the host, agent, and environment interact to increase transmissibility and virulence of ESKAPE pathogens—including organisms like MRSA and Enterobacteriaceae spp., using epidemiological and genomic techniques. During her postdoctoral work, she studied MRSA transmission in community settings, examined epidemic strain success among isolates spanning 2004-2020, and investigated the relationship between jail MRSA prevalence and community transmission through infectious disease modeling.

Dr. Adediran brings extensive practical experience to her faculty role, including previous positions as an infection control epidemiologist with the Maryland Department of Health and as an epidemiologist with the Berkeley County Health Department in West Virginia. She is also a Certified in Infection Control (CIC), demonstrating her expertise in infection prevention and epidemiology. She has published extensively, with over 15 peer-reviewed publications in journals such as Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, mSphere, and Open Forum in Infectious Diseases.

The Department of Epidemiology is enthusiastic about Dr. Adediran’s arrival to the graduate faculty. Her work and expertise strengthen the department’s infectious disease epidemiology expertise, bringing advanced skills in genomic epidemiology and pathogen transmission dynamics. She will teach graduate-level courses in infectious disease epidemiology and will collaborate with interdisciplinary teams across the university to advance research on healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance. Dr. Adedrian is “…excited to be a part of the Department of Epidemiology, and I am looking forward to collaborating with the faculty and students.”