Eri Togami DVM, MPH | PhD Student
Eri is an epidemiologist, veterinarian, and PhD candidate in Environmental Health. Her interests include One Health, zoonoses (infectious diseases that are transmitted between animals and humans), health emergencies, and global health capacity building. Her dissertation focuses on social and behavioral factors that drive the transmission of Taenia solium (a parasite known as pork tapeworm) in southern Rwanda. Eri will conduct quantitative and qualitative (mixed-methods) analyses to investigate pig-keeping and hygiene practices, risk perception of zoonoses, and acceptability of pig vaccination and treatment in the community.
Prior to joining Johns Hopkins University, she conducted surveillance and response for COVID-19, Ebola and other zoonotic diseases at the World Health Organization (WHO) Headquarters in Geneva, WHO Western Pacific Regional Office in the Philippines, and WHO Fiji Office. She also worked on a USAID-funded, early-warning virus surveillance project, named PREDICT, at the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine. She obtained her degree in veterinary medicine from Nippon Veterinary and Life Science University in Japan, Master of Public Health (Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases) from Yale School of Public Health and completed a One Health fellowship at the University of California, Davis.
Eri serves as an elected member of the One Health Action Collaborative at the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Research Interests
One Health; social sciences; behavior change; environmental epidemiology; emerging infectious diseases; zoonoses; outbreak response; public health intelligence; disease surveillance; capacity building; veterinary medicine.
Selected Publications
- Togami E, Behravesh CB, Dutcher TV, et al. Characterizing the One Health workforce to promote interdisciplinary, multisectoral approaches in global health problem-solving. PLoS One. 2023;18(5):e0285705. Published 2023 May 16. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0285705
- Togami E, Chiew M, Lowbridge C, et al. Epidemiology of dengue reported in the World Health Organization's Western Pacific Region, 2013-2019. Western Pac Surveill Response J. 2023;14(1):1-16. Published 2023 Mar 22. doi:10.5365/wpsar.2023.14.1.973
- Togami E, Griffith B, Mahran M, et al. The World Health Organization's public health intelligence activities during the COVID-19 pandemic response, December 2019 to December 2021. Euro Surveill. 2022;27(49):2200142. doi:10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2022.27.49.2200142
- Togami E, Lowbridge C, Chinnayah T, et al. Strengthening national, regional and global health capacity through the WHO Western Pacific Region's Field Epidemiology Fellowship Programme. Western Pac Surveill Response J. 2021;12(4):1-9. Published 2021 Oct 26. doi:10.5365/wpsar.2021.12.4.844
- Togami E, Gyawali N, Ong O, et al. First evidence of concurrent enzootic and endemic transmission of Ross River virus in the absence of marsupial reservoirs in Fiji. Int J Infect Dis. 2020;96:94-96. doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2020.02.048
- Togami E, Kama M, Goarant C, et al. A Large Leptospirosis Outbreak following Successive Severe Floods in Fiji, 2012. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2018;99(4):849-851. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.18-0335
- Togami E, Gardy JL, Hansen GR, et al. Core Competencies in One Health Education: What Are We Missing? NAM Perspectives. Published 2018 June 4. doi:10.31478/201806a
Projects
- Community One Health Empowerment in Rwanda and Senegal (COHERS) by COHERS Consortium
- Countering Zoonotic Spillover of High-Consequence Pathogens in Southeast Asia by International Network for Governmental Science Advice (INGSA) Asia and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM)