Biography

Dr. Neeta Connally graduated from URI with a PhD in Environmental Sciences in 2004. Her disseration focused upon fine-scale ecological determinants of Lyme disease. She also holds a Master of Science in Public Health from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and she spent several years conducting postdoctoral epidemiologic research of tick-borne diseases at Yale School of Public Health. Dr. Connally is currently an Assistant Professor of Biology at Western Connecticut State University, and she continues to work with CVBD applying her expertise in tick-borne disease epidemiology and risk assessment towards developing innovative decision support tools for tick-borne disease prevention.