Megan Coffee, MD, PhD (DPhil) is a clinical assistant professor at New York University Grossman School of Medicine, the communicable disease advisor at the International Rescue Committee (IRC), teaches on outbreaks in humanitarian crises at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, and directs a non-profit, Ti Kay, while leading research on machine learning in prevention and response to emerging and neglected infectious diseases globally.

She has worked with Z-Inspection since 2020 and has taught masters students at the University of Pavia on the Z-Inspection approach.

She leads a collaboration on machine learning in the fog of war of early outbreaks. This includes developing mpox dermatologic detection models, working with collaborators in Burundi, DRC, Nigeria, and elsewhere to ensure effectiveness, while also working on data-centric approaches in radiologic screening and diagnosis, sentiment analysis, and predictive analytic models for infectious diseases.

She is an attending physician in infectious diseases at Bellevue Hospital through NYUGSOM and New York City Health and Hospitals. At IRC, she has advised on and coordinated integrated clinical responses, including Ebola in Sierra Leone, but also cholera, dengue, Lassa, COVID, malaria, and has also worked with the WHO, CDC, US State Department, and other governments. She was the director of the TB unit at the main public hospital in Port-Au-Prince, and established a non-profit, with Haitian nurses, to support the care of TB, HIV, and other infectious diseases, and which developed an ongoing telehealth program and also supports the development and effective use of other technology, including machine learning, in low resource and crisis contexts.

She completed her undergraduate and medical school education at Harvard University and her doctorate at Oxford University, where she worked on designing and coding mathematical models of infectious disease epidemics in Professor Roy Anderson’s group at the then Center for the Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and her fellowship in infectious diseases at University of California at San Francisco, with research at UC Berkeley Center for Infectious Disease and Emergency Readiness. She also advises companies on infectious disease risk and works in telemedicine.