I am a One Health consultant, working with international government and non-profit organizations on projects that address health challenges by exploring the interconnections between human, wildlife, livestock, and environmental health. I hold a PhD in wildlife disease ecology from Emory University and received professional training as an Epidemiology Fellow with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). My work supports disease control and prevention initiatives as well as wildlife conservation programs. I have expertise in curriculum development, field project management, intervention evaluation, data science, disease surveillance, eco-epidemiological modeling, scientific writing and communication.

As an ORISE Epidemiology Fellow with the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases at the CDC, I supported national surveillance activities of tick-borne rickettsial pathogens (Rocky Mountain and other Spotted Fevers, ehrlichiosis, and anaplasmosis) and projects on tick-induced mammalian meat allergy (alpha-gal syndrome).

I completed my PhD in Population Biology, Ecology, and Evolution at Emory University, advised by Dr. David Civitello, in December 2023. For my dissertation, I evaluated the efficacy and feasibility of a prophylactic treatment for chytridiomycosis, a disease that poses a major threat to amphibian biodiversity. My work addressed questions across multiple ecological scales using a combination of laboratory experiments, disease modeling, and fieldwork.