Dr. Desiree LaBeaud is a physician-scientist, epidemiologist, and professor in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Stanford University’s School of Medicine. She received her MD from the Medical College of Wisconsin and trained at the Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital during her pediatric residency and pediatric infectious disease fellowship program. She earned her master’s degree in clinical research and epidemiology at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. LaBeaud studies the epidemiology and ecology of domestic and international arboviruses and emerging infections, with an interest in the vector, host, and environmental factors that affect transmission dynamics and spectrum of disease. Her climate health research is community-engaged and seeks to define and then disrupt the underlying structural determinants of health. She has also recently launched a nonprofit, the Health and Environmental Research Institute – Kenya (www.heri-kenya.org) which seeks to inspire community education, new research, policy change and grass roots activism in Kenyan environmental health issues.
