Skylar Hopkins

Bio

Dr. Skylar Hopkins is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Ecology and the Global Change and Human Well-being cluster at NC State University, and she leads the IUCN WCPA Task Force on Protected Areas and One Health. Dr. Hopkins has many research interests, including finding and evaluating “win-win” solutions that simultaneously reduce human infectious disease burdens and advance conservation goals. To this end, she has several collaborations with NGOs and local and Indigenous communities, including an ongoing project to understand how health and livelihood support impact communities and forest loss in protected areas in Indonesian Borneo. Dr. Hopkins’ main area of expertise is parasite and disease ecology, and she has co-authored a textbook on Emerging Zoonotic and Wildlife Pathogens.