Britt LM Bustamante, PhD, MPH, is an infectious disease epidemiologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at UC Irvine’s Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health. Her research examines how social, environmental, and health-system factors shape infectious disease risk and outcomes, with a focus on health inequities. She combines epidemiologic methods, large-scale health data, and computational modeling to study fungal diseases, healthcare access, and the social and environmental determinants of infectious disease.