I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Michigan Department of Epidemiology. My research sits at the intersection of pathogen ecology, math modeling, and public health, and I use a range of public health databases, waste water surveillance, hospital records, and experimental data to model real-world disease dynamics and inform optimal intervention strategies.

I was previously appointed to the Institute for Global Change Biology (IGCB), where I focused my research on understanding how climate change affects the spread and severity of cholera in Haiti. Additionally, I investigated how globalization increases the risk of zoonoses among agricultural workers in North America.

I received my PhD in Meghan Duffy’s lab (University of Michigan Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) where I used a combination of observational field work, experiments, and mathematical models to better understand complex disease dynamics in an aquatic arthropod study system.

You’re welcome to check out the rest of this site to get more details on individual projects, and you can reach me at kdmclean@umich.edu with any questions.