Faculty

Helen Y Chu

Professor, Epidemiology
Professor, Medicine - Allergy and Infectious Dis.
Adjunct Professor, Global Health
Term Professorship, Medicine - Allergy and Infectious Dis.


Education

MPH Epidemiology, University of Washington, 2012
MD Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 2005
BA Cornell University, 2001

Research Areas

Research Interests

Dr. Chu's research is focused on maternal immunization, in particular vaccines against influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). She studies the virologic and immunologic correlates of protection from respiratory viral infections in pregnant women, infants, and older adults, and performs clinical trials of vaccine candidates in both domestic and international sites, including Nepal and Bangladesh. She has developed immunologic assays to study transplacental transfer and decay kinetics of RSV antibody, and nosocomial and household transmission of respiratory viruses by genotypic analysis and molecular sequencing.

Recent Publications (PubMed)

Delineating the functional activity of antibodies with cross-reactivity to SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV-1 and related sarbecoviruses.
(2024 Oct)
PLoS Pathog 20(10): e1012650
Ruiz F, Foreman WB, Lilly M, Baharani VA, Depierreux DM, Chohan V, Taylor AL, Guenthoer J, Ralph D, Matsen Iv FA, Chu HY, Bieniasz PD, Côté M, Starr TN, Overbaugh J
Clinical and Genomic Epidemiology of Coxsackievirus A21 and Enterovirus D68 in Homeless Shelters, King County, Washington, USA, 2019-2021.
(2024 Nov)
Emerg Infect Dis 30(11): 2250-2260
Cox SN, Casto AM, Franko NM, Chow EJ, Han PD, Gamboa L, Pfau B, Xie H, Kong K, Sereewit J, Rolfes MA, Mosites E, Uyeki TM, Greninger AL, Carone M, Shim MM, Bedford T, Shendure J, Boeckh M, Englund JA, Starita LM, Roychoudhury P, Chu HY
Maternal immunization.
(2024 Oct 21)
J Infect Dis
Cho HK, Frivold C, Chu HY
A Perspective on Vaccinology.
(2024 Oct 14)
J Infect Dis
Chu HY
"I probably shouldn't go in today": Inequitable access to paid sick leave and its impacts on health behaviors during the emergence of COVID-19 in the Seattle area.
(2024)
PLoS One 19(9): e0307734
Iwu CD, Cox SN, Sohlberg SL, Kim AE, Logue J, Han PD, Sibley TR, Ilcisin M, Fay KA, Lee J, McCulloch DJ, Wang Y, Boeckh M, Englund JA, Starita LM, Hajat A, Chu HY
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