Stephanie L. Richards East Carolina University, USA

Dr. Stephanie L. Richards is a Professor of Health Education and Promotion in the Environmental Health Sciences Program at East Carolina University. She has a B.S in Biology and M.S. in Environmental Health from East Carolina University. She completed her PhD in Entomology with a minor in Geographic Information Science at North Carolina State University. Her post-doctoral work in Arbovirology was completed at the University of Florida, Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory. She studies biological and environmental factors affecting vector ecology, underlying mechanistic causes of differential vector competence for arboviruses, role of mosquitoes in the spread of emerging pathogens, spatial ecology of vectors and vector-borne disease, vector-borne disease and public health, and insects of forensic importance. Learn more about Dr. Richards by visiting her institutional webpage.