Research Expertise and Interest

zoonotic infectious disease, anthropogenic forest change

Research Description

Tierra Smiley Evans is an assistant professor of Emerging Zoonoses at the School of Public Health with a joint appointment in the department of Integrative Biology. Her research investigates how anthropogenic forest change alters the ecology and evolution of zoonotic viruses. The Smiley Lab studies the relationship between global forest change, biodiversity loss and disease emergence and how we expect patterns of disease spillover at newly created forest edges to impact human and wildlife health.