Charlotte D. Smith is a faculty member of the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, and a Visiting Professor at the Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara – Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO). Her research interests include the microbial ecology and control of waterborne pathogens, and using geospatial statistics to explore the pathway from environmental exposures, including contaminated water, to acute and chronic diseases (e.g., diarrheal and/or kidney disease). Current community-based participatory research in Guadalajara focuses on access to water as a human right under UN Resolution 64-292. Dr. Smith teaches GIS and Spatial Analysis for Health Equity , and Applied GIS for Public Health. She enjoys mentoring graduate and undergraduate students.

Dr. Smith holds a BS in Microbiology from the University of Michigan, an MAS in Spatial Analysis from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, an MA in Community Health from the City University of New York, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Health Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a member of the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management – Academic Network of the Americas, GIS Latin America, and the Organization of American States – Pan American Institute for Geography and History. She received the John Leal Public Health Award in 2022, the Jorge Matute Remus Award in 2019, and the Zak Sabry Mentorship Award in 2016.

Impact assessment and evaluation of water systems and public health in urban and rural Mexican communities

Central American communities 

Microbial ecology of waterborne pathogens

Bacterial endosymbionts of free-living protozoa

PhD – Environmental Health Science
University of California, Berkeley

MAS – Spatial Analysis
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

MA – Community Health
City University of New York

BS – Microbiology
University of Michigan

Charlotte Smith's Bibliography - NIH National Library of Medicine

Summer Session C | PHN177
Applied GIS for Public Health

SP2 OOMPH | PHW277
Applied GIS for Public Health Practice

Spring | PH177A
GIS and Spatial Analysis for Health Equity

Spring | PH277A
GIS and Spatial Analysis for Health Equity

Fall at ITESO – Guadalajara, Mexico
GIS Applications in Environmental Health

United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management – Academic Network of the Americas 

Organization of American States – Pan American Institute of Geography and History 

Visiting Professor – Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (Fall Semesters)