Angela Harris

Bio

Dr. Angela Harris is an Assistant Professor in the Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Department at North Carolina State University, and a member of the Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (Global WaSH) cluster in the Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program. Dr. Harris earned her Ph.D. and M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Stanford University. She received her B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Harris’s research seeks to characterize human exposure pathways of environmentally-mediated infectious diseases and develop methods to interrupt pathogen transmission to protect human health. Dr. Harris also works to improve data collection and analysis strategies related to microbial contamination, with particular focus in developing and using source tracking techniques for fecal contamination in the environment, detecting and characterizing antibiotic resistant organisms in the environment, and detecting an array of enteric pathogens in a variety of environmental media. She has previous and current field sites in the United States, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Bangladesh, and Indonesia. Dr. Harris has expertise in modeling, public health, risk assessment, statistics, environmental sampling and monitoring, microbiological and molecular laboratory methods, survey questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and structured observations.