Dr. Coffin's research interests focus upon the epidemiology and prevention of healthcare-associated and vaccine-preventable infections in children. Over the past several years, she has expanded her focus to include the prevention of healthcare-associated infection in neonates and young children in low-and-middle-income countries (LMIC). Her work in this area has been recognized by the Centers of Disease Control and Gates Foundation in their request to participate in a small panel responsible for conducting a landscape analysis on the state of neonatal sepsis prevention in LMIC.

Board certified in Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Coffin served as the hospital epidemiologist at Children’s Hospital of Philadephia for more than a decade and is an associate scholar in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.