Institution
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
Based in
United States , New Orleans
Languages
English
Short Bio
Rachel Denny holds her BS from the University of Georgia, her MSPH from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and is currently working on her PhD in Epidemiology at the LSUHSC School of Public Health under the guidance of Dr. Susanne Straif-Bourgeois.
She has worked in local and federal-level vector control since 2017. She was originally
Her Master's thesis focused on the relationship between green infrastructure management and conditions, Culex quinquefasciatus breeding, and social inequities in New Orleans. She completed a fellowship in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria in 2020-2021 before moving back home to New Orleans to work for the City.
Her doctoral work and research interests take an environmental-social epidemiologic lens and apply it to the built environment and the distribution of rodent-borne disease risk among New Orleans residents.
She has worked in local and federal-level vector control since 2017. She was originally
Her Master's thesis focused on the relationship between green infrastructure management and conditions, Culex quinquefasciatus breeding, and social inequities in New Orleans. She completed a fellowship in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria in 2020-2021 before moving back home to New Orleans to work for the City.
Her doctoral work and research interests take an environmental-social epidemiologic lens and apply it to the built environment and the distribution of rodent-borne disease risk among New Orleans residents.
Other Expertise
Zoonoses
Epidemiology
Public Health
Spatial Analysis
Environmental Health