Karen Levy
Professor, Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
Climate and health, Infectious diseases, Public health
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Expertise: Ecology and epidemiology of food- and waterborne diseases, water quality, food safety, infectious diseases, the impact of climate and land use change on the transmission of diarrheal diseases
Karen Levy is Professor in the UW Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences. She studies the ecology and epidemiology of environmentally-mediated infectious diseases. Her research group uses microbiology, genomics, and epidemiology to study linkages between the environment and enteric (food and waterborne) disease transmission, with a focus on water quality, food safety, animal exposure, and climate change. Their goal is to generate robust scientific evidence to address the burden of enteric diseases in vulnerable populations.
