Research

Alexandria Boehm, PhD

Dr. Boehm is a professor of civil and environmental engineering and a senior fellow at Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford. Her research focuses on pathogens in the environment including their sources, fate, and transport in natural and engineered systems.

She has been working on wastewater based epidemiology since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. She also studies how pathogens are transmitted to humans through contact with water, feces, and contaminated surfaces. Dr. Boehm’s work addresses key problems in both developed and developing countries with the overarching goal of designing and testing novel interventions and technologies for reducing the burden of disease.

Marlene Wolfe, PhD

Dr. Wolfe is an assistant professor of environmental health at Emory. As an environmental microbiologist, engineer, and epidemiologist, her work focuses on developing tools to use environmental detection of pathogens to understand population health and risks, and to implement and evaluate interventions that reduce environmental exposure to pathogens.

Dr. Wolfe uses mixed methods approaches to understand the efficacy of interventions in the laboratory and how they are utilized and effective in context. Her work particularly addresses communities that are low-resource or facing emergencies to create sustainable and adaptable solutions to understand and manage their relationship to infectious disease.