Our Team

Laura Beilsmith, MPH, PhD Student

Laura is a Climate and Human Health PhD student. She received her BSPH and MSPH in Epidemiology from Saint Louis University. She previously served as an epidemiologist for the Washington State Department of Health and is interested in researching how our changing climate will impact infectious disease spread.

Elise Grover, DrPH, MSPH

After receiving her MSPH in International Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Dr. Grover joined the Colorado School of Public Health in 2017 to complete a DrPH in Environmental and Occupational Health. Having graduated from the DrPH program in 2022, she is now currently working as a Senior Research Scientist with the Carlton Research Group where she assists with research and analyses that are primarily focused on the roles of climate and the environment of infectious disease transmission. Recent works include an assessment of how weather versus weather-related human mobility patterns influence SARS-CoV-2 transmission, and an investigation of the relationship between extreme weather and cryptosporidiosis and giardiasis transmission in Colorado.

Andrew Hill, MS

Andrew is a Research Software Engineer working at the Center for Innovative Design and Analysis (CIDA) in the Colorado School of Public Health. Andrew received his MS in Computer Science from the University of Colorado Denver in 2020 in the Data Science in Biomedicine track. His interests include statistics, machine learning, and software development in the context of medical research. In the Carlton Research Group, Andrew contributes to multiple projects related to infectious diseases, including COVID-19 and schistosomiasis.

Irina Kasarskis, MPH, DrPH Student

Irina is a DrPH student in the Department of Epidemiology. She received her MPH in Biostatistics and Epidemiology from Boston University School of Public Health. She previously worked as an epidemiologist for the State of Oregon and has an interest in infectious diseases. Her research focuses on the impact of the public health surveillance system on forecasting healthcare system capacity for respiratory diseases.

Emma received her MS in Epidemiology from the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in 2021 and currently works as a Senior Professional Research Assistant in the Carlton Research Group. From 2020 to 2022, she supported the Colorado COVID-19 Modeling Group conducting data analyses, running projections, and generating graphics to inform public health decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, she supports various projects including the evaluation of environmental exposures and SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater.

Wei is an Environmental & Occupational Health DrPH student interested in the environmental drivers of infectious disease spillovers. He received his MPH in Epidemiology from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Wei is currently working on identifying key predictors of human schistosomiasis infections in China.