Stephanie  Bellman

Steph Bellman is a dual degree MD/PhD student pursing her PhD in Environmental Health Sciences in the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health at Emory University. She is an Infectious Disease Across Scales Training Program Fellow and 2023 Livingston Fellow which supports her study of Heartland virus (HRTV), an emerging arbovirus, across multiple ecologic and epidemiologic scales. She is interested in the links between climate and vector-borne disease, environmental determinants of infectious disease, and the ecology and dynamics of tick-borne viruses (like HRTV). She is also interested in using metagenomic sequencing techniques to study viral dynamics and evolution in the environment.