Amy J. Pickering, Ph.D. is the Blum Center Distinguished Chair in Global Poverty and Practice jointly appointed in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Blum Center for Developing Economies. Dr. Pickering’s research combines tools from multiple disciplines (engineering, economics, microbiology, epidemiology) to identify low-cost and scalable interventions to interrupt disease transmission in low-income countries. Dr. Pickering has over 15 years of experience collaborating with partners in Benin, Kenya, Tanzania, Mali, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and India on research to improve human health and well-being. She is a CZ Biohub Investigator and NSF CAREER awardee. Her main research interests include disease transmission, water, public health surveillance, zoonotic infectious disease, and community-acquired antimicrobial resistance.