Meet the NEWVEC team.

Andrew is an infectious disease epidemiologist focusing on vector-borne diseases. His research encompasses public health surveillance, communicable disease control, and the human ecology of vector-borne disease.

In his free time, Andrew enjoys hiking and biking in Western Massachusetts with his family.

Stephen grew up in upstate New York, went to graduate school in Vermont, Massachusetts, and California, but has spent most of his professional life in the state of Massachusetts. His formal education is in evolutionary genetics, but Stephen has always focused his research on agents and vectors of zoonotic disease.

In addition to leading NEWVEC, Stephen operates the Laboratory of Medical Zoology (LMZ), an academic research lab at UMass Amherst, which focuses on infectious diseases, specifically vector-borne zoonoses. 

Incurably curious and always looking for new questions to ask, Stephen lives in Amherst with his wife, two children, and black Labrador retriever.