Hailey Robertson

Hailey Robertson is a doctoral student in the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the Yale School of Public Health and an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. Her research focuses on how climate change influences the ecology, transmission, and global burden of vector-borne viruses, using machine learning and statistical models.

Prior to Yale, she served as a Research Analyst & Data Engineer in the Data Lab at the Center for Global Health Science and Security at Georgetown University, and previously at Talus Analytics. In these roles, she contributed to pandemic response efforts with U.S. state governments, supporting high-level decision-making during COVID-19. Her work included developing analytic tools and executive dashboards for governors’ offices, translating epidemiological data for public communication and press briefings, and contributing to policy planning on school reopening, vaccination strategy, and the mental health impacts of the pandemic.

She holds a B.S. in Global Health and a minor in Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence from the University of Southern California. Outside of her research, Hailey is actively involved in the policy debate community.