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Erika Austhof is currently an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics. She studies the effect of weather and climate change on infectious diseases, and the long-term gastrointestinal effects of COVID-19. She first learned to code in HTML to update her MySpace page, and now codes everyday in R and Stata. She learned the power of data science while working on her dissertation exploring the association between weather and Campylobacter and Salmonella infections in the US Southwest. Erika is passionate about data science and improving data governance in public health.
Erika Austhof
Assistant Research Professor
University of Arizona
Interests
- Epidemiology
- Climate change & health
- Data science
Education
- PhD Epidemiology, Minor in Management Information Systems, 2023
- MPH Epidemiology, 2015
- BS Microbiology, 2012