Amy Vittor, M.D., Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor and a board-certified Infectious Disease physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine at the University of Florida, where she studies the interface between vector-borne disease, land use and host immunity. Interested in understanding linkages between ecology and global health, she conducted a landmark study on malaria and deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon. Subsequent work includes the study of dengue epidemiology in Kenya with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Nairobi as a Fogarty International Clinical and Research Fellow, and studies on dengue and climate change in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam on dengue and climate change. Dr. Vittor has since been studying zoonotic mosquito-borne viruses in the Darien region of Panama in collaboration with the Gorgas Memorial Institute. On the clinical front, Dr. Vittor has engaged in global health, treating patients with HIV and tuberculosis in Botswana, Kenya and Panama. Dr. Vittor also attends on the Infectious Diseases consultation service and serves as Deputy Hospital Epidemiologist at the North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Affairs Health System.  

Dr. Vittor received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. in public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, M.D. from Stanford University, and completed Internal Medicine residency and Infectious Disease fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania.