Dr. Erin M. Sorrell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, at Georgetown University. She also serves as Director of the Elizabeth R. Griffin Program.

For the last ten years Erin has applied her technical laboratory training in virology and experience in government to contribute to global health security as a practitioner and an academic. Her current research portfolio combines the disciplines of basic science, biosafety and health systems strengthening to address infectious disease threats whether they be novel, emerging or re-emerging. Her work focuses on developing and applying a variety of methodologies to map, assess, and address both the structure and function of health systems. Erin collaborates across the U.S. government, international organizations, and ministries around the world to identify elements required to support health systems strengthening and laboratory capacity building for disease detection, reporting, risk assessment, and response. She is also interested in operational and implementation research questions related to sustainable health systems strengthening, with an emphasis on the prevention, management, and control of infectious diseases in humanitarian situations, and particularly countries and regions affected by conflict.

In addition to her research, Dr. Sorrell teaches within is the Director of Graduate Studies for the Biohazardous Threat Agents & Emerging Infectious Diseases M.Sc. Program where she advises and teaches an annual cohort of students. Dr. Sorrell received her undergraduate degree in animal science from Cornell University and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in animal science and virology from the University of Maryland.