Andrea is interested in the eco-epidemiology of infectious diseases and how social factors interact with environmental drivers of transmission. Her dissertation research focuses on the human-environment dynamics involved in the transmission of schistosomiasis in the Senegal River Basin. Previously, Andrea has led field work on the ecology of West Nile virus transmission in urban Atlanta as well as on the role of social factors in explaining environmental risk for cholera in the Dominican Republic. Andrea holds a master’s of public health in global epidemiology from Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health and a bachelor of arts in biology and Spanish from the University of Minnesota, Morris.