Eri Togami DVM, MPH | PhD Student

Eri is an epidemiologist, veterinarian, and a 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 US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.