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Kelly Baker
Director of the Center for Climate Change and Health Equity
University at Buffalo School of Public Health and Health Professions
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Infectious disease and antimicrobial resistance, One Health, transdisciplinary science, climate and health equity, water and sanitation, global health
Kelly Baker is director of the UB Center for Climate Change and Health Equity. The center focuses on growing a collaborative research community that works with external communities and public institutions to improve climate preparedness and resilience to future extreme weather conditions.
Her research identifies community development, behavioral and diagnostic interventions that can help prevent infectious disease transmission between humans, animals and the environment, with a focus on enteric viral, bacterial and parasites spread by human and animal feces.
Her work on climate preparedness, as it relates to infectious disease control, includes the impacts of neighborhood poverty and underdevelopment on flood-borne diarrheal and enteric fever disease in Kenya, climate adaption to drought on child malnutrition in Ethiopia, determinants of guinea worm transmission in Ethiopia, and extreme weather impacts on microbial water contamination in rural areas of the United States.
CONTACT:
Kelly Baker, PhD
Director of the Center for Climate Change and Health Equity
Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health
University at Buffalo School of Public Health and Health Professions
- 716-829-6738
- kkbaker@buffalo.edu
- Kelly Baker's website