Erik Schaefer

Erik is a first-year joint PA/MPH student in the department of Health Policy. He is interested in the intersections of climate change, natural disasters, armed conflict, and human health and specifically interested in civil-military operations. His clinical interests are emergency medicine, tropical medicine and heat stress physiology. Erik is a retired U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman with broad experience in healthcare as well as warfighting and humanitarian assistance/disaster relief planning and operations. He is a 2021 graduate of San Francisco State University’s formal Postbacc program.