Rachel A. Mercaldo, Ph.D.

Research Fellow

Contact: For contact information, search the NIH Enterprise Directory.

Education:

Ph.D., 2021, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

Photo of Rachel A. Mercaldo, Ph.D.

Biography

Dr. Rachel Mercaldo is a research fellow in the Epidemiology and Population Studies Section, NIAID. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Georgia, studying tuberculosis, Zika virus, and COVID-19 infection and disease dynamics through a mixture of spatial epidemiology, simulation, and machine learning methods. Her current research focuses on determinants of exposure and infection in the nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) system.