Erin Mordecai, Ph.D.
Associate Professor in Biology
Erin Mordecai is an Associate Professor in Biology at Stanford University, where her research focuses on environmental drivers of infectious disease dynamics and their impacts on hosts. Mordecai’s work integrates empirical data with mathematical models, following two main themes: (i) the impact of the environment on vector-borne disease transmission in humans, and (ii) the impact of pathogens in plants and wildlife. The Mordecai Laboratory at Stanford University focuses on the consequences of environmental change for human and wildlife health. Her team uses diverse research approaches to understand impacts of climate and land use on vector-borne disease, including dengue, chikungunya, Zika, malaria, yellow fever, and leishmaniasis in the Americas, Southeast Asia, and Africa. Capitalizing on and contributing to the vibrant, interdisciplinary, and solutions-oriented research environment at Stanford, Mordecai is a Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment, a Leading Interdisciplinary Collaborations (LInC) Fellow, an Ecological Society of America Early Career Fellow, a Faculty Fellow in the Center for Innovation in Global Health and the King Center for Global Development, and a member of Bio-X, an interdisciplinary biosciences institute at Stanford.
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