Tierra Smiley Evans, DVM PHD

Tierra Smiley Evans, DVM, PhD, is adjunct faculty at the One Health Institute, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and assistant professor of Emerging Zoonoses at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health with a joint appointment in the department of Integrative Biology. She is an infectious disease epidemiologist and wildlife veterinarian who investigates how anthropogenic forest change and biodiversity loss alter the ecology and evolution of zoonotic viruses. Her research utilizes a transdisciplinary One Health approach to examine the mechanisms of human disease emergence at the forest edge, with a specific focus on how nonhuman primates facilitate spillover.