Hi 👋, I’m Marisa.
I am an Epidemiologist and CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer (Disease Detective 🕵🔎️🦠) with a background in quantitative infectious disease epidemiology. I work on COVID-19 in the Disease Investigations Section at the California Department of Public Health.
I’m driven to improve health outcomes for marginalized populations impacted by infectious diseases and believe that wealth should not be an obstacle to knowledge, prevention, or treatment.
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- 👩💻 Infectious Disease Modeling
- 🥾 Field Epidemiology
- 🌎 Health Equity
PhD in Infectious Disease Epidemiology 🦠, 2020
University of California Davis
BS in Environmental Systems, emphasis in Chemistry ⚗️🧪, 2013
University of California San Diego
Projects
COVID-19 Epidemiology
Leading a SARS-CoV-2 household transmission investigation in US Households
Climate change and health equity in California
Projecting heat-related mobidity and motality attributed to climate change in California.
Dengue and Zika Epidemiology in Peru
Data management for a 15,000 participant cohort study
Sociodemographic drivers of Aedes aegypti abundance
Empircal models to identify vulnerable communities in Los Angeles, CA
Aedes aegypti blood and sugar-feeding
Laboratory and modeling methods to predicting Ae. aegypti blood and sugar-feeding
Modeling changes in Aedes aegypti habitat
Mapping past, present, and future climatic suitability of Ae. aegypti in the United States