Health Innovation Professor Becky Smith
Epidemiology | Public health | Infectious disease | Vector-borne disease | One Health | Antimicrobial resistance | Modeling | Data analysis | Forecasting | Diagnostics
Projects Available for Carle Illinois College of Medicine Student Participation
Survey Design & Resistance Development - We are designing surveys to inform training courses around ticks and tick-borne diseases, and trying to understand barriers to diagnosis of vector-borne disease. We are also working on understanding antimicrobial decision-making and how it might relate to resistance development
Why I'm Motivated to be a HIP Faculty Member:
My work crosses between human and animal medicine, so working with CI Med only makes sense. I hope to work closer with the students and faculty.
Carle Illinois College of Medicine Related Research
Professor Smith's work focuses on the prevention and control of infectious diseases, including vector-borne diseases (West Nile Virus, Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases), antimicrobial resistance, and others. In particular, I use mathematical and statistical modeling to predict the impact of disease control in populations. She works in the One Health space, particularly with zoonotic diseases.