Rebecca Fischer

Rebecca Fischer, PhD, MPH, DTMH, is an Associate Professor at the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at Texas A&M University. Her work bridges tropical medicine, infectious disease epidemiology, and One Health approaches to understand disease dynamics in resource-limited settings.

• DTMH, Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine, 2018
• PostDoc, Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, 2018
• PhD, Field Epidemiology, The University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health, 2014
• MPH, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, The University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health, 2009
• BS, Biology: Ecology, Evolution & Conservation, The University of Texas at Austin, 1998

Her research focuses on epidemiology of tropical diseases, global health, clinical disease characterization in emerging infections, and infectious disease surveillance. Recent studies address SARS-CoV-2 transmission clusters in pets/humans, CKDu etiology, and dengue outbreak modeling. She emphasizes utilizing students for epidemiologic surge capacity and international field epidemiology.

Key publication trends include zoonotic disease transmission (SARS-CoV-2 in pets, Ehrlichia in dogs), CKDu research across Central America/US, and dengue risk modeling integrating climate/economic/vector data. Her 2022-2025 articles highlight the ‘triple threat’ of co-circulating respiratory viruses and innovative academic-public health partnerships for pandemic response.

Contact: rfischer@tamu.edu | 979.436.9393