Scarlet Bliss is a second year MS/PhD student in Epidemiology at UC Berkeley School of Public Health advised by Dr. Jay Graham, also pursuing a Designated Emphasis in Development Engineering and an Applied Data Science certificate. She seeks to address current environmental health challenges, particularly in the antimicrobial resistance and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) fields, through a bridging of community engaged research and epidemiologic methods. Her current work focuses on community-designed, systems-based approaches to preventing irrigation and wastewater transmission of pathogens in peri-urban communities outside of Quito, Ecuador.