Emily Selland

Emily Selland is a Doctoral Student Affiliate at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and a PhD candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame. She holds a Bachelor of Science with Distinction in Research in Animal Science from Cornell University. Her research brings together agriculture, community ecology, public health, and environmental science to contribute to improving livelihoods through disease reduction and sustainable development. Currently, Emily's research focuses on specific interventions to control the environmentally-transmitted neglected tropical disease, schistosomiasis. In particular, Emily assesses the epidemiology and ecology of vegetation removal and rice-fish farming as tools to reduce disease incidence within broad community and occupational settings in the context of the socioeconomic drivers behind the interventions. More broadly, she is interested in optimizing disease control by developing systems in partnership with local communities for integrated disease control within a planetary health framework.