Tierra Smiley Evans, DVM, PhD
Tierra Smiley Evans is an Assistant Professor of Emerging Zoonoses at UC Berkeley who uses computational and natural field systems to study pathogen spillover at the interface of humans, wildlife and the environment.
Biography
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.
Research Interests
- Zoonotic disease emergence
- Wildlife health and conservation
- Transmission dynamics of pathogen spillover
- Primatology
- Scientific capacity strengthening in LMIC countries
Education
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PhD – Infectious Disease Epidemiology
University of California, Davis -
DVM – Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
Tufts University -
BS – Combined Sciences
Santa Clara University