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Erin Welsh, PhD (she/her/hers)

This Podcast Will Kill You, Colorado, United States

Erin Welsh, PhD is a scientist and science communicator who produces and co-hosts This Podcast Will Kill You, a popular science podcast that she and co-host Erin Allmann Updyke launched in 2017. Each episode of This Podcast Will Kill You explores the biology, history, and current status of a particular disease or other medical topic and is accompanied by a cocktail recipe, a "quarantini" or non-alcoholic "placeborita". This Podcast Will Kill You, now with over 150 episodes, has a global listenership, and several episodes from the podcast's COVID-19 miniseries have been selected for inclusion in the David J. Spencer CDC Museum COVID-19 Web Collection. Erin earned her MS in Epidemiology from the University of Louisville in 2012 and her PhD in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology from the University of Illinois in 2018. Her research has investigated the host-parasite dynamics of nematode infections in humans as well as the climatic and ecosystem drivers of tick-borne disease risk in Panama and Finland. When she's not podcasting, she's busy walking her dog, tending to her garden, reading a novel, or hiking in the mountains outside Denver, Colorado, where she lives.

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