Dr. Leis is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. With a background in both statistics and epidemiology, her research seeks to understand intersections between chronic diseases and viral infectious disease, with a particular focus on non-traditional risk pathways leading to the development of chronic disease following acute viral infection.
Much of her work is clinical and epidemiological in nature, with the driving motivation of identifying the “hidden populations” at elevated risk of developing severe disease from or significant adverse sequelae after acute viral respiratory infection beyond our current understanding of these mechanisms.
She received her PhD in Epidemiologic Science from the University of Michigan in 2022, her MS in Biostatistics from Drexel University in 2015, and her BS in Mathematics from St. Bonaventure University in 2013.
