Susan Paskewitz

Susan Paskewitz is chair of the Department of Entomology in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and director of the Midwest Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease.

Paskewitz’s research program centers on medically important arthropods, including ticks and mosquitoes, and the human pathogens they transmit. She teaches classes in global health and medical entomology and her research laboratory group works on problems of local and global health impacts. Her current projects include and ecological/epidemiological work that targets disease reduction. She is especially interested in: ecology and epidemiology of arthropod-borne disease in Wisconsin, outreach on mosquito and tick-borne disease and prevention.