Tulane's closure for Hurricane Ida is being extended through Tuesday. Campus will be closed and all classes canceled, on Monday, August 30 and Tuesday August 31. Visit our emergency page for more information.
Tulane's closure for Hurricane Ida is being extended through Tuesday. Campus will be closed and all classes canceled, on Monday, August 30 and Tuesday August 31. Visit our emergency page for more information.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Malaria Branch, Centers for Disease Control
Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory University
PhD, University of Notre Dame
MS, University of Illinois
BA, North Central College
Dawn Wesson's background in medical/molecular entomology and vector biology has led to her role as a principal investigator on many research projects on vector-borne pathogens (particularly dengue, West Nile, and Chagas disease), and as an instructor of graduate and undergraduate courses on vector biology and ecology in the Department of Tropical Medicine at Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Her research interests include the ecology of arbovirus transmission, eco-epidemiology of Chagas disease, host-pathogen co-evolution, development of novel vector control strategies and tools, and examining the effects of vector-borne pathogen infection on human pregnancy outcomes. She has mentored more than 170 students (BSPH, MSPH and PhD), and post-doctoral researchers.
View Dr. Wesson's publications at her NCBI profile page.