Torre Lavelle

Torre is a PhD student in the Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases Department at the Yale School of Public Health. She holds an MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation, and Management from the University of Oxford and MA in Global Affairs form Tsinghua University, where she was a Schwarzman Scholar. She previously worked as interim chief of staff at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy and joined the founding team of the Columbia Climate School. She is interested in the anthropogenic drivers of zoonotic disease emergence, the impact of climate change on health systems, and national and international governance of pandemic prevention.