Kelly Baker, PhD, joined the Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health in 2024 as an associate professor and director of the Center for Climate Change and Health Equity. Previously, Baker worked at the University of Iowa, Emory University, and the University of Maryland Baltimore Center for Vaccine Development. Her transdisciplinary research focuses on identifying global development, behavioral, and diagnostic interventions that can be used in One Health programs to prevent infectious disease transmission between humans, animals, and the environment, with a focus on gastrointestinal and antimicrobial resistant infections in young children (globally) and rural America. Her work at the climate-health equity interface in urban informal settlements globally examines the impact of poor neighborhood development and pluvial flooding in diarrheal and enteric fever disease burden. Another project focus on determining whether prevention of water and sanitation insecurity among low-income rural pregnant women can prevent preterm and low infant birthweight deliveries.