Andréia Arruda is an assistant professor in the Department of Veterinary Preventative Medicine at The Ohio State University. Originally from Brazil, she graduated from São Paulo State University in 2010 with her DVM. While working on her DVM, she was part of an international exchange program where she worked for one year on a 1,200-sow farrow-to-wean farm in a small town in northern Minnesota.
Arruda decided to follow a research career, and in 2011, she returned to the United States, where she started her training as a scientist graduating with a master’s in science from the University of Minnesota in 2012. In 2013, she moved to Canada to pursue a PhD in Epidemiology at the University of Guelph, which she earned in 2015. She then held a one-year research position at the University of Minnesota as a post-doctoral associate.
Her main research interest is in infectious disease epidemiology. She aims to better understand how emerging and re-emerging diseases spread between farms, animals and humans and how to control and prevent them. As an epidemiologist, Arruda’s projects relate to several animal species and public health topics. She is interested in international collaborations to learn how other researchers, veterinarians and communities deal with similar problems in different scenarios.