Karen Levy
Professor, Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
Climate and health, Infectious diseases, Public health
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Expertise: Ecology and epidemiology of food- and waterborne diseases, water quality, food safety, infectious diseases, the impact of climate and land use change on the transmission of diarrheal diseases
Karen Levy is Professor in the 91±¬ÁÏ Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences. She studies the ecology and epidemiology of environmentally-mediated infectious diseases. Her research group uses microbiology, genomics, and epidemiology to study linkages between the environment and enteric (food and waterborne) disease transmission, with a focus on water quality, food safety, animal exposure, and climate change. Their goal is to generate robust scientific evidence to address the burden of enteric diseases in vulnerable populations.