Dr. Eva Harris

Dr. Eva Harris is Professor and Chair of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, Director of the Center for Global Public Health, and Chair of the Infectious Diseases and Immunity PhD Program in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. She has developed a multidisciplinary approach to study the molecular virology, pathogenesis, immunology, epidemiology, clinical aspects and control of dengue, Zika and chikungunya, the most prevalent mosquito-borne viral diseases in humans. Her work addresses immune correlates of protection and pathogenesis and viral and host factors that modulate disease severity, using in vitro approaches, animal models, and research involving human populations. Her international work involves laboratory-based and epidemiological studies of arboviral diseases in endemic Latin American countries, particularly in Nicaragua through close collaborations for over three decades, which include a 20-year ongoing pediatric cohort study and companion hospital-based study. She is deeply committed to scientific capacity building globally; to this end, she co-founded and continues to help lead the Sustainable Sciences Institute based in California and Nicaragua.