Mallory Harris is interested in quantitative methods to study the interplay between human behavior and infectious diseases: how human activity can impact epidemic dynamics and how people respond to outbreaks. She received her PhD in Biology from Stanford University where she worked with Erin Mordecai in 2024 examining social and ecological drivers of infectious diseases. She was also a visiting graduate student researcher at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, where she studied vaccine misinformation. Mallory earned dual bachelor’s degrees in Applied Mathehmatics and Computational Biology from the University of Georgia, where she conducted undergraduate research on vector-borne disease forecasting with John Drake. At Stanford, she was the President of Scientists Speak Up, an organization focused on countering scientific misinformation.