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    Colin J. Carlson, PhD

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    Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
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    Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

    Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Biography

    Dr. Carlson is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Yale University School of Public Health. His work explores the challenges faced by health systems in the Anthropocene, with a focus on how climate change increases risks from both infectious diseases of poverty and pandemic threats. His research also explores problems in global health governance, with several ongoing projects focused on the legal, political, and scientific determinants of outbreak reporting and scientific data sharing.

    Dr. Carlson is also the co-founder and executive director of Verena, a cross-university collaboration of over a dozen early career scientists developing a data science-driven approach to assessing which viruses pose a risk to human health, and where, when, and why they might emerge in human populations. In 2019, Verena was selected as an NSF Biology Integration Institute, a five-year, $12.5m cooperative agreement that has supported a global study of bat immunology, a cohort of eight doctoral students at five universities, and new open platforms for data sharing.

    Prior to joining Yale University, Dr. Carlson was research faculty at Georgetown University’s Center for Global Health Science and Security, and earlier, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Socioenvironmental Synthesis Center at the University of Maryland. He has also contributed to reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management from the University of California, Berkeley.

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    Education & Training

    Postdoctoral Fellow
    Georgetown University (2020)
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    The National Socioenvironmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), University of Maryland College Park (2018)
    PhD
    University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management (2017)

    Research

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    Medical Research Interests

    Anthrax; Arboviruses; Climate Change; Data Science; Ecology; Global Health; Legal Epidemiology; Machine Learning; Malaria; One Health; Plague; Viral Zoonoses

    Public Health Interests

    Bioinformatics; Cross-Species Transmission; Preparedness; Disease Transmission; Emerging Infectious Diseases; Environmental Health; Epidemiology Methods; GIS/Disease Mapping; Global Health; Climate Change; Health Policy; Infectious Diseases; Malaria; Microbial Ecology; Modeling; Parasitology; Vaccines; Viruses; Zoonotic Diseases; Vector Biology; Health Systems Strengthening; Neglected Tropical Diseases; Planetary Health; Environmental Policy; Health Equity, Disparities, Social Determinants and Justice; Mosquito-borne Diseases; Network Analysis; Statistical Computing; Vector-borne Diseases; Tick-borne Diseases

    Research at a Glance

    Publications

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    Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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      International Union for the Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission (IUCN SSC)

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      PEPFAR Scientific Advisory Board

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      npj Climate Action

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      Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

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      Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)

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    • Public Health Modeling Unit

      Academic Office

      350 George Street, Fl 3rd Floor, Rm 321

      New Haven, CT 06511