I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Yale School of Public Health, faculty in the Yale Center for Climate Change and Health, and a member of the Public Health Modeling Unit.
My research explores infectious disease dynamics with a focus on how environmental and sociodemographic factors affect bacterial respiratory disease. By bringing together earth systems, pathogen genomic, and epidemiological data, I am working to understand the mechanisms and drivers of pathogen evolution and disease transmission.
Beyond scientific research, I am an avid runner, skier, rock climber, and cyclist.
Education
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PhD in Pathogen Genomics & Epidemiology
University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK)
Thesis: “Geographic Migration and Evolution of Streptococcus pneumoniae” (Supervisors: Prof. Stephen Bentley & Prof. Henrik Salje) -
MSc in Medical Microbiology
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (London, UK & Fajara, The Gambia)
Dissertation: “Towards understanding genomic drivers of antimicrobial resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis” — awarded with distinction -
BA in Biology, minor in Neuroscience
Lewis & Clark College (Portland, Oregon, USA)