
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 which supports her study of Heartland virus (HRTV), an emerging arbovirus, across multiple ecologic and epidemologic 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 dymanics and evolution in the enviornment.
Areas of Interest
- Climate and Health
- Disease Ecology
- Genomics
- Infectious Disease
- Spatial Analysis/GIS
- Statistical Modeling
- Vector-borne/Zoonotic Diseases
Education
- Bachelors of Science 2017, Auburn University
- Bachelors of Science 2017, Auburn University
Affiliations & Activities
President of MD/PhD Student Association
Publications
- Yamila Romer, Kayla Adcock, Zhuoran Wei, Daniel G. Mead, Oscar Kirstein, Steph Bellman, Anne Piantadosi, Uriel Kitron, and Gonzalo M. Vazquez-Prokopec, 2022, Isolation of Heartland Virus from Lone Star Ticks, Georgia, USA, 2019, Emerging Infectious Diseases, 28, 786-792
- Ahmed Babiker, Michael A Martin, Charles Marvil, Stephanie Bellman, Robert A Petit Iii, Heath L Bradley, Victoria D Stittleburg, Jessica Ingersoll, Colleen S Kraft, Yan Li, Jing Zhang, Clinton R Paden, Timothy D Read, Jesse J Waggoner, Katia Koelle, Anne Piantadosi, 2022, Unrecognized introductions of SARS-CoV-2 into the US state of Georgia shaped the early epidemic, Virus Evolution, ,