Directory Profile
Elizabeth Carlton PhD, MPH
Professor and Chair
- Department of Environmental & Occupational Health
Email Address:elizabeth.carlton@cuanschutz.edu
Primary Phone:303-724-5099
Mailing Address:
- CU Anschutz
Fitzsimons Building
13001 East 17th Place
Aurora, CO 80045
Elizabeth Carlton is a professor and Chair of 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 how climate change is altering the distribution of infectious diseases. Her research focuses on improving surveillance and control tools for infectious diseases including emerging diseases and neglected tropical diseases. She values transdisciplinary approaches and collaborative research. Dr. Carlton’s current work includes a studies using genomics, epidemiology and ecology to understand barriers to schistosomiasis elimination in residual transmission hotspots; and efforts to understand how to improve surveillance for emerging infectious disease threats. She co-led the Colorado COVID-19 modeling group, providing rapid analysis and evidence synthesis to Colorado leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
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Areas of Expertise
- Environmental epidemiology
- Global health
- Emerging infectious diseases
- Health impacts of climate change
- Surveillance and control of infectious diseases
Education, Licensure & Certifications
- PhD, Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
- MPH, Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
- BS, Biology, Yale University
Awards
- Delta Omega National Honorary Society in Public Health, Inducted 2017
- M. Donald Whorton Writing Award, Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, 2013
- Dean’s Recognition Apple for Teachers, School of Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco, 2008, 2009
Affiliations
- Section Editor, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases; Scientific Advisory Group Member, NIH Tropical Medicine Research Centers