Biography:
Dr. Colt holds bachelor’s degrees in biology and anthropology from the University of Rhode Island (2006) and a postgraduate diploma in public health from the University of Auckland (2009). She earned her doctoral degree in the concentrations of nutrition, epidemiology, and infectious disease immunology in 2019 from Cornell University. In 2020, Dr. Colt joined the Center for International Health Research (CIHR) at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University where she studies schistosomiasis-related morbidities among pregnant women and children. In recent years, she received awards from the Thrasher Foundation (2022) and the National Institutes of Health (2023) to investigate relationships between vitamin A deficiency and schistosomiasis immunopathology.
Title : Inflammation-adjusted vitamin A deficiency is associated with higher Schistosoma japonicum infection intensity among children and adolescents in the Philippines