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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. Now she uses data science every day in her work, exploring the association between extreme weather events and food-and water-borne infections. Erika is passionate about One Health, data science, adapting to and mitigating the health effects of climate change, and supporting public health stakeholders through research.

Erika Austhof

Assistant Research Professor

University of Arizona

Interests

• Epidemiology
• Infectious diseases
• Climate change & health
• Data science

Education

• PhD Epidemiology, Minor in Management Information Systems, 2023
• MPH Epidemiology, 2015
• BS Microbiology, 2012

Current News

I was selected for the University of Arizona Health Sciences Career Development Award! This grant provides up to two years of funding to advance research. I am studying the role of weather in spatial-temporal clusters of Salmonella in Colorado. UAHS wrote about the award here

Environmental Health Perspectives wrote about my recently published paper in their Science Selection. This news article covers differences in Campylobacter incidence in the Southwest following precipitation and drought events.