I am an infectious disease epidemiologist, and a Research Associate in Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine. My research is extremely interdisciplinary, and sits at the crossroads of epidemiology, global health, environmental health, clinical medicine, and translational sciences. I focus on exploring exposures and risk factors that influence infectious disease susceptibility to enteric pathogens and their sequelae, with the aim of providing evidence-based guidance to clinicians and policy makers to improve clinical and population-level interventions.

Through graduate training at Emory University and Oregon State University, I built a foundation in the technical and analytic skills necessary to conduct rigorous infectious disease epidemiological research. This included traditional epidemiologic methods such as survival analysis, multilevel modeling, and causal inference techniques, as well as extensive coursework in global health and environmental exposures. Through my additional experiential training at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDRB) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), I developed topical expertise in the study and control of food and waterborne pathogens, including water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) techniques. I also gained hands-on expertise in collaborating with multinational research teams and conducting research in low-resource settings. Most recently as a postdoctoral fellow, I acquired expertise in machine learning, prediction, and math modeling methods.

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