Biography

Erika Austhof is currently a Senior Epidemiologist at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. She studies the effect of weather and climate change on infectious diseases, and the long-term gastrointestinal effects of COVID-19. She learned to code 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

Sr. Epidemiologist 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