Meredith Spence Beaulieu

Bio

Dr. Meredith Spence Beaulieu is a board certified medical and veterinary entomologist interested in vector-borne disease dynamics, public health, and science policy. As the University Program Manager for the Global One Health Academy, Spence Beaulieu helps envision and execute university-wide interdisciplinary initiatives to advance research, training, and public engagement in One Health. She is particularly passionate about graduate student training and co-leads the academy’s Global One Health Fellows program.

Prior to joining the Global One Health Academy, Spence Beaulieu was the Assistant Director of the Triangle Center for Evolutionary Medicine (TriCEM), an inter-institutional and interdisciplinary center focused on understanding the role of ecology and evolution in predisposing humans, animals, and plants to disease, and exploiting this knowledge to improve health outcomes. She received her PhD in Entomology from NC State with research focused on the effects of suburban development on mosquito assemblages, and its subsequent impacts on pathogen transmission using dog heartworm disease as a study system.

Spence Beaulieu is an Entomological Society of America (ESA) Science Policy Fellow and is active in multiple academic societies, including ESA, the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health (ISEMPH), the American Mosquito Control Association, and the North Carolina Mosquito and Vector Control Association.