Rachel Clear Oberle, MPH

Rachel Clear (Oberle) received her BS in public health from The University of Texas at Austin with a concentration in social and behavioral sciences. Her MPH was earned from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Austin with a concentration in health promotion, health education, and global health. During her MPH, she studied both ethnic disparities in obstacles to COVID-19 isolation and the feasibility of bolstering TB contact tracing with additional child well-checks in a rural area of Eswatini. After graduating in 2021, she worked as the lead COVID-19 hospitalization and mortality epidemiologist for the city of Austin. Following this, she completed an infectious disease epidemiology fellowship at the Texas Department of State Health Services. She began her PhD in Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease at Tulane in 2023, and currently studies risk factors for progression of Chagas cardiomyopathy and triatomine vector ecology.