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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
• 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-temportal 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.