Desiree LaBeaud, MD, MS, FASTMH, is professor in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Stanford School of Medicine, in Epidemiology, and in Environmental Social Sciences at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. Dr. LaBeaud received her B.S. from University of California-San Diego, M.D. from Medical College of Wisconsin, and Master of Science from Case Western Reserve University, where she also completed her pediatric residency and infectious disease fellowship. She leads a clinical research lab that studies the eco-epidemiology of emerging arboviruses, with an interest in the vector, host, environmental, and structural factors that affect transmission dynamics and spectrum of disease.  She seeks to define and then disrupt the underlying structural determinants of health, including work on the health impacts of climate change and the global plastic pollution crisis. Her independent research studies are community-engaged, using clinic and field-based approaches, to define arboviral disease burden and then develop innovative community interventions, including launching a nonprofit, the Health and Environmental Research Institute, that supports community education, research, policy change and grass roots activism in environmental health issues. She was recently appointed Associate Dean of Global Health at Stanford to coordinate and support university-wide research and education in human planetary health, vulnerable populations, and women leadership. She has served as Chair of the American Committee on Arboviruses, Elected Board member of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), and Chair of the External Advisory Board to the NIH Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases. She is involved in large national and international efforts to educate clinicians and researchers in the impacts of climate change on health (ASTMH Green Task Force Chair, Project ECHO Climate and Health Responders Courses, and African climate education). With her expertise, she is a highly sought after presenter, collaborator, and mentor, both domestically and internationally.