She is also the Deputy Director of the NYU College of Nursing's Center for Drug Use and HIV Research (CDHUR) and a faculty affiliate of NYU Steinhardt's Center for Health, Identity, Behavior and Prevention Studies (CHIBPS). Dr. Ompad completed her B.S. in Biology at Bowie State University and her M.H.S. and Ph.D. in infectious disease epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. She is an epidemiologist with extensive experience in the design, conduct and analysis of community-based cross-sectional and prospective studies focusing illicit drug use, risky sexual behavior, and adult access to vaccines in urban settings.