TAMAR CARTER, PHD, MPH

Tamar Carter is an assistant professor of tropical disease biology at Baylor University, Texas, USA. She earned her PHD in Genetic and Genomics and MPH (concentration Epidemiology) at the University of Florida, Florida, USA where she studied genetic variation associated with parasite antimalarial resistance and host genetic red blood cell disorders in Haiti. Her interest in bridging research and public health led her to complete an internship at the UF Public Health Laboratory in Gressier, Haiti and serve as a James A. Ferguson Emerging Infectious Diseases fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. During her postdoctoral fellowship at University of North Carolina, Charlotte, her interests grew to include malaria vector surveillance through collaborations with Jigjiga University in east Ethiopia. Now at Baylor University (since 2018), Dr. Carter applies both molecular and data science approaches to investigate vector and parasite evolution, coevolution, and ecology to inform strategies for malaria control.