Dr. Joseph Fauver is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s College of Public Health. He is broadly interested in how we can use pathogen genomics to better understand infectious disease transmission dynamics in a variety of different systems, including RNA viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and Dengue virus, and parasites, including Plasmodium falciparum and hookworms. Dr. Fauver received his PhD in medical entomology and microbiology from Colorado State University in 2017. He conducted postdoctoral training at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine working as a part of the Global Program to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis, then at the Yale School of Public Health working on the COVID-19 pandemic. His laboratory at the UNMC COPH uses modern genomic approaches to improve infectious disease surveillance both locally and globally while conducting epidemiological studies into viral outbreaks and endemic parasite transmission.