Dr. Lamb's research and public health practice are focused on improving the health of children living both in the United States and in resource-poor countries. Before joining the faculty at the Colorado School of Public Health at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus in 2011, she was an epidemic intelligence service officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, stationed at the National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, MD, where she investigated infectious disease outbreaks and conducted research on childhood obesity. She currently is an clinical teaching associate professor in the department of epidemiology as well as an epidemiologist at the Center for Global Health, where she works on research and public health projects in Guatemala and India, and serves as the director of educational experiences, linking students with global health projects and mentoring junior global health researchers. She is also the director of the DrPH in Epidemiology program at the Colorado School of Public Health. She specializes in designing and conducting multi-site and international longitudinal surveillance and epidemiologic studies, and conducting advanced epidemiologic analyses on the complex data these studies produce. She also focuses on teaching global health courses and mentoring junior colleagues from marginalized populations, disadvantaged groups, of minority status, and who are focused on health issues disproportionately affecting the world’s poor and disadvantaged populations. 

As the Director of Educational Experiences, she support students and junior colleagues in getting involved in global health research and public health projects. As a co-Instructor of the Global Health and Disasters course, she collaborates with clinical colleagues to design and present this survey course of relevant global health topics to medical students and residents, and bring public health expertise to the course. And as an epidemiologist, she works with the Trifinio team and the India team on designing, running, and analyzing their epidemiologic research studies and public health programs. 

Over the past year she has continued her long-standing collaboration with the Trifinio team conducting infectious disease research in the agricultural workers and their families living near the study site in rural Southwest Guatemala. She has also continued to provide epidemiologic support to the TEALEAF interventional trial that aims to develop a sustainable approach to addressing the mental health needs of grade school children in Darjeeling, India. In addition, she have been involved in a variety of educational activities, including mentoring graduate students, teaching graduate-level global health courses, and researching the effectiveness of global health training activities.