Courtney Victor is a doctoral student in the Environmental Health Sciences program in the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health at Emory University. She is an 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, enteric diseases, water quality, and the gut microbiome in international settings. She has experience with molecular and microbiological laboratory methods, as well as analytical tools such as spatial epidemiology and quantitative microbial risk assessment. Her dissertation research will explore the impact of water quality on the composition and development of the gut microbiome in young children in Beira, Mozambique.
Areas of Interest
- Bioinformatics
- Diarrheal and Enteric Diseases
- Disease Ecology
- Laboratory Science
- Microbiome Research
- Safe Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
- Spatial Analysis/GIS
- Statistical Modeling
Education
- Bachelor of Science 2016, University of Alabama
- Master of Public Health 2019, Emory University
Affiliations & Activities
- ARCS Foundation Fellow
- EHS Student Group Co-Representative
- Delta Omega Honor Society in Public Health
- WASH Action, Research, and Practice
- American Public Health Association
- International Association of Food Protection
- Association for Women in Science (Tuscaloosa Chapter)
Publications
- Courtney Victor, Denisse Vega Ocasio, Zaida A. Cumbe ,Joshua V. Garn, Sydney Hubbard, Magalhaes Mangamela, Sandy McGunegill, Rassul Nalá, Jedidiah S. Snyder, Karen Levy, Matthew C. Freeman, 2022, Spatial heterogeneity of neighborhood-level water and sanitation access in informal urban settlements: A cross-sectional case study in Beira, Mozambique, PLOS Water, ,
- Courtney P Victor, Karen Ellis, Frederica Lamar, Juan S Leon, 2021, Agricultural Detection of Norovirus and Hepatitis A Using Fecal Indicators: A Systematic Review, International Journal of Microbiology, ,
- Gwenyth O Lee 1, Joseph N S Eisenberg 2, Jessica Uruchima 2, Gabriela Vasco 3 4, Shanon M Smith 5, Amanda Van Engen 2, Courtney Victor 5, Elise Reynolds 2, Rebecca MacKay 5, Kelsey J Jesser 6, Nancy Castro 7, Manuel Calvopiña 8, Konstantinos T Konstantinidis 9, William Cevallos 10, Gabriel Trueba 3, Karen Levy 6, 2021, Gut microbiome, enteric infections and child growth across a rural-urban gradient: protocol for the ECoMiD prospective cohort study, BMJ Open, ,