Epidemiologist
California Department of Public Health
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Samuel Schildhauer, MPH
Samuel Schildhauer is an Epidemiologist who has been working for the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) for 7 years across multiple disciplines including microbiology, epidemiologic surveillance, and data analysis. He graduated from UC Berkeley in 2017 with a Master of Public Health with a focus on infectious disease and vaccinology, where he studied influenza epidemiology in Thailand and cross-reactive antibodies between flavivirus infections from a longitudinal cohort. As a microbiologist at Vector-borne disease section in CDPH, he contributed to research studying the incidence of tick and mosquito borne-disease, as well as pesticide resistance among invasive Aedes aegypti populations. After working as a surveillance epidemiologist during the COVID-19 response, he began working with the Mpox pandemic response, coordinating in-depth epidemiologic analyses focused on the risk factors for disease severity and prolonged illness, as well as the impact of Jynneos vaccination. Samuel is passionate about infectious disease surveillance and diagnostics in low-resource settings, with a focus on emerging and neglected disease. Samuel is currently a second year PhD student at the University of California, Davis, working with Dr. Kristen Aiemjoy to study the seroepidemiology of undifferentiated febrile illness in Southeast Asia with a focus on scrub typhus.