Lauren Pischel, MD, MSc

Dr. Lauren Pischel obtained her undergraduate degree in biology at Brown University and worked in the lab of Dr. Jake Kurtis on the development of a pediatric malaria vaccine. She obtained her MD at Stanford where she conducted research with Dr. Julie Parsonnet on the impact of an antimicrobial triclosan on the human microbiome. She then completed her internal medicine residency at Yale where she was awarded the primary care award for the Fair Haven Community Health Center. She subsequently pursued her fellowship in infectious diseases at Yale and her Master of Science in the epidemiology of infectious diseases at the Yale School of Public Health under the mentorship of Saad Omer and Inci Yildirim. Her research interests include the epidemiology and household transmission of COVID-19 and influenza as well estimating vaccine effectiveness using real-world data and the epidemiology emerging infectious diseases.