Cristina Lanzas

Bio

Dr. Cristina Lanzas joined the Department of Population Health and Pathobiology as Assistant Professor of Infectious Disease in January 2015. Previously, she was Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at University of Tennessee and senior personnel at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis ( www.nimbios.org ). She received her degree in Veterinary Medicine from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain in 2000 and her M.Sc. (2003) and Ph.D. (2007) in Animal Sciences from Cornell University.
Lab: https://lanzaslab.wordpress.ncsu.edu/

CERTIFICATIONS

Doctor of Philosophy (2007)
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Master of Science (2003)
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Veterinary Medicine Degree (2000)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain
With the highest honors

Area(s) of Expertise

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS, GLOBAL HEALTH, INFECTIOUS DISEASES
My research lab focus is the epidemiology and ecology of infectious diseases in animal and human populations. We combine data, epidemiological analysis and mathematical models to study transmission mechanisms, and to identify and design control measures to reduce the public health burden associated with infectious diseases. We are particularly interested in understanding the role that the environment plays on transmission and the dissemination of antimicrobial resistant pathogens. Our program spans a range of pathogen-host systems including foodborne pathogens in farm animals and health-care associated diseases in humans.

Publications

• Geographic disparities and predictors of COVID-19 vaccination in Missouri: a retrospective ecological study , FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH (2024)
• Distilling Mechanistic Models From Multi-Omics Data , (2023)
• Early coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic effects on individual-level risk for healthcare-associated infections in hospitalized patients , INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY (2023)
• Early evaluation of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidance on antimicrobial use in food animals on antimicrobial resistance trends reported by the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (2012-2019) , ONE HEALTH (2023)
• Impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on antimicrobial use in companion animals in an academic veterinary hospital in North Carolina , Zoonoses and Public Health (2023)
• Modeling impact of vaccination on COVID-19 dynamics in St. Louis , JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL DYNAMICS (2023)
• A review of epidemiological models of Clostridioides difficile transmission and control (2009e2021) , ANAEROBE (2022)
• Epidemiology of Plasmid Lineages Mediating the Spread of Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamases among Clinical Escherichia coli , MSYSTEMS (2022)
• Extensions of mean-field approximations for environmentally-transmitted pathogen networks , MATHEMATICAL BIOSCIENCES AND ENGINEERING (2022)
• Geographic disparities and determinants of COVID-19 incidence risk in the greater St. Louis Area, Missouri (United States) , PLOS ONE (2022)

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