Courtney Victor

Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health
Courtney Victor

Bio

Courtney Victor is a postdoctoral fellow in the Nadimpalli Lab and Freeman Research Group in the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health at Emory University. She is a former ARCS Foundation Fellow, a research fellow in the Center for Global Safe WASH, and a former Dr. James A. Ferguson Emerging Infectious Disease Fellow. Her research interests are in exposure assessment in WASH, antimicrobial resistance, enteric diseases and the gut microbiome in international settings. She has experience with molecular and microbiological laboratory methods, as well as analytical tools including bioinformatics, spatial epidemiology and quantitative microbial risk assessment. Her dissertation research explored the impact of water quality on the composition and development of the gut microbiome among children in Beira, Mozambique. As a postdoctoral fellow, she is working on a project with Drs. Maya Nadimpalli and  Matthew Freeman which explores the spread of antimicrobial resistance from poultry products sold at wet markets to the community in Nairobi, Kenya. 

Areas of Interest

  • Bioinformatics
  • Safe Water
  • Sanitation and Hygiene
  • Statistical Modeling
  • Laboratory Science
  • Microbiome Research
  • Spatial Analysis/GIS
  • Disease Ecology
  • Diarrheal and Enteric Diseases

Education

  • Bachelor of Science, University of Alabama
  • Master of Public Health, Emory University
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Emory University