We welcome inquiries from prospective and current graduate students. Students who are highly motivated and have strong problem solving skills are encouraged to send a letter of interest along with a recent resume or CV to Elizabeth Carlton. The Department of Environmental & Occupational Health offers masters and doctoral degrees, including a master of public health program, with the option to add an emphasis in global health, a doctorate in public health, and a PhD in climate and human health.
Doctoral students are encouraged to apply for pre-doctoral funding. Possible sources include NSF Graduate Research Fellowships.
Email Address:elizabeth.carlton@cuanschutz.edu
Primary Phone:303-724-5099
Fitzsimons Building
13001 East 17th Place
Aurora, CO 80045
Elizabeth Carlton is an associate professor in the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health at the Colorado School of Public Health. She is an environmental epidemiologist who studies how infectious diseases spread and why, at times, they persist despite control efforts. Her research focuses on improving surveillance tools for infectious diseases including COVID-19 and schistosomiasis. She values transdisciplinary approaches and working with her collaborative research group that includes masters and doctoral students, as well as postdoctoral fellows. Dr. Carlton currently leads a research program using next generation genomics, epidemiology and ecology to understand barriers to schistosomiasis elimination in residual transmission hotspots. Since the start of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, she has been a core member of the Colorado COVID-19 modeling group, providing rapid analysis and evidence synthesis to Colorado leadership. She leads a program working to improve surveillance tools for SARS-CoV-2 in the Rocky Mountain West, using rapid literature review, data analysis and mathematical modeling.
Dr. Carlton teaches courses on environmental and occupational epidemiology, the health impacts of climate change, and the emergence and control of infectious diseases. She leads the Doctor of Public Health program in Environmental and Occupational Health. She received her PhD in Environmental Health Sciences from the University of California Berkeley, her MPH from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, and her BS in biology from Yale University. Prior to graduate school, she was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras.
Learn more about Dr. Carlton’s Research Group >