Real-world vaccine effectiveness and population health evaluation
East Tennessee State University offers partnership opportunities focused on evaluating vaccine effectiveness, vaccine impact, and immunization program performance at the population level. We collaborate with public health agencies, healthcare systems, community organizations, and industry partners to study how vaccines affect infection, hospitalization, severe disease, mortality, and related health outcomes across populations. Our work can support questions related to routine immunization, seasonal vaccination, outbreak response, emerging pathogens, and disparities in vaccine uptake and protection.
Partnerships may include sponsored research, co-development, pilot projects, capstone collaborations, and applied analytic support. We can contribute expertise in epidemiologic study design, quasi-experimental and observational methods, surveillance data analysis, comparative outcome assessment, subgroup analysis, and interpretation of real-world evidence. Example areas include estimating vaccine effectiveness using population-based datasets, assessing indirect effects and community-level protection, evaluating coverage and uptake patterns, identifying high-risk or underserved groups, and translating findings into decision-ready reports, presentations, and manuscripts. We are especially interested in collaborations that generate actionable evidence for policy, practice, and public health planning.
About East Tennessee State University
East Tennessee State University conducts research across health sciences, public health, clinical and translational science, addiction science, and community‑engaged social and behavioral studies, alongside strong programs in education, computing, and the arts and sciences. Notable units include the Quillen College of Medicine, the Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy, the College of Nursing, the College of Public Health, and the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services, as well as the Addiction Science Center and ETSU Health. The ETSU Research Corporation and the Innovation Lab support technology transfer, entrepreneurship, and regional industry collaboration. Research funding commonly comes from federal agencies such as the NIH, HRSA, CDC, and NSF, in addition to state and regional partners. Applied outcomes are focused on rural and telehealth delivery models, substance use disorder prevention and treatment, population health analytics, and community and workforce development in the Appalachian region.
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