Dr. Cristin Young

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Infectious Disease Epidemiologist Consultant for Center for Wildlife Studies

Ph.D. Infectious Disease Epidemiology, University of California, Davis

MPH Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley

BA, Human Biology; BA, Anthropological Sciences, Stanford University

Email: cristincwyoung@gmail.com

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Cristin is an infectious disease epidemiologist whose main interest is in One Health and how the interactions between humans, animals, and the environment affect the emergence and spread of infectious disease through human populations. 

Cristin has expertise in emerging infectious disease and chronic disease research, One Health work, wastewater-based epidemiology, and disease modeling. As an epidemiologist, her skillsets are broad, and include designing and carrying out research studies, developing and implementing healthcare programs in resource-poor settings, analyzing large-scale datasets using R, and publishing results in high impact journals. She has worked at the state and federal government level in public health research, and her latest work was at a startup, focusing on wastewater-based epidemiology.

    • Klevens, R. Monina, Cristin CW Young, Scott W. Olesen, Anthony Osinski, Daniel Church, Jennifer Muten, Lori Chou, Tami Segal, and Kevin Cranston. "Evaluation of wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in Massachusetts correctional facilities, 2020–2022." Frontiers in Water 5 (2023): 1083316.

    • Johnson, Christine K., Peta L. Hitchens, Pranav S. Pandit, Julie Rushmore, Tierra Smiley Evans, Cristin CW Young, and Megan M. Doyle. "Global shifts in mammalian population trends reveal key predictors of virus spillover risk." Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287, no. 1924 (2020): 20192736.

    • Young, Cristin CW, Dibesh Karmacharya, Manisha Bista, Ajay N. Sharma, Tracey Goldstein, Jonna AK Mazet, and Christine K. Johnson. "Antibiotic resistance genes of public health importance in livestock and humans in an informal urban community in Nepal." Scientific reports 12, no. 1 (2022): 13808.

    • Pandit, Pranav S., Megan M. Doyle, Katrina M. Smart, Cristin CW Young, Gaylen W. Drape, and Christine K. Johnson. "Predicting wildlife reservoirs and global vulnerability to zoonotic Flaviviruses." Nature communications 9, no. 1 (2018): 5425.

    • Young, Cristin CW, and Kevin J. Olival. "Optimizing viral discovery in bats." PLoS One 11, no. 2 (2016): e0149237.