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Dr. Smith joined the faculty of ÐÔ¸£ÎåÔÂÌì University's College of Public Health and Health Sciences (formerly the College of Public Health) in August 2013. An Ohio native, she previously spent nine years in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Iowa College of Public Health, where she directed the College’s  and attained the rank of associate professor with tenure. She completed post-doctoral training in molecular epidemiology at the University of Michigan prior to beginning her professorship at the University of Iowa. She obtained a Ph.D. at the University of Toledo and a B.S. in biology from Yale University. 

Dr. Smith’s research generally focuses on  (infections which are transferred between animals and humans). She was the first to identify livestock-associated strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the United States, and has pioneered the investigation of this organism in the U.S. Dr. Smith has published over 120 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. (Full publication list can be found at ). She has received funding from AHRQ, USDA, and NIOSH to carry out these studies. She has presented her research at numerous national and international platforms, including talks on Capitol Hill on the topic of agriculture and antibiotic resistance. Her work has been profiled in many major publications, including ,  and , as well as in "" by Maryn McKenna and "" by Barry Estabrook. 

Dr. Smith is also very active in science communication and outreach. She maintained a from 2005-2018 and has written books on , , and . A second book on Ebola, "," was published by MIT Press in 2016. She also writes about infectious disease for several national sites, penned a column for , and serves as a member of the advisory board of the . She lives in rural Ohio.

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Selected Publications, of 130 to date (full list is available at ):

Smith TC. . Science, 388(6745):369.DOI: 10.1126/science.adv9772. 2025. 

Smith TC. . AIDS and Behavior, 29:309–316, 2024. 

Smith TC, Gorski DH. . Vaccine, 42(4), 924-929, 2024. 

Smith TC. . Clinical Infectious Diseases, 77(12):1644-1647, 2023. 

Smith TC. . American Journal of Public Health, 113(5):463-464, 2023. 

Zhu Y, Beam M, Ming Y, Egbert N, Smith TC. . Vaccines: 10(11), 1876; , 2022. 

Smith TC, Rubinstein DR. . Microbes and Infection, 22(10): 608-610, 2020. 

Egbert N, Goodall CE, McCullough JL, Smith TC. . Microbes and Infection, 22(10): 508–510, 2020. 

Heaton CJ, Gerbig GR, Sensius LD, Patel V, Smith TC. . Antibiotics, 9, 89, 2020.

Smith TC, Thapaliya D, Bhatta S, Mackey S, Engohang-Ndong J, Carrel M. . Microbes and Infection, 20(6):323-327, 2018.

Wardyn SE, Stegger M, Price LB, Smith TC. . Emerging Infectious Diseases, 24(1):153-154, 2018.

Smith TC. . Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 4(3):ofx146, 2017.

Thapaliya D, Dalman M, Kadariya J, Little K, Mansell V, Taha MY, Grenier D, Smith TC. . EcoHealth, 14(2):303-309, 2017.

Nair R, Wu J; Carrel M; O’Brien A; Quick M; Farina S; Wardyn S; Thapaliya D; Grenier D; Smith TC. . Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 85(3):360-366, 2016.

Smith TC. . BMJ, 351:h6423 , 2015. 

Wardyn SE, Forshey BM, Farina S, Kates AE, Nair R, Quick M, Wu J, Hanson BM, O’Malley S, Shows H, Heywood E, Beane-Freeman LE, Lynch CF, Carrel M, Smith TC. . Clinical Infectious Diseases, 61(1):59-66, 2015. 

McDanel JS, Perencevich EN, Diekema DJ, Herwaldt LA, Smith TC, Chrischilles EA, Dawson JD, Jiang L, Goto M, Schweizer ML. . Clinical Infectious Diseases, 61(3):361-7, 2015. 

Smith TC. . PLoS Pathogens, 11(2): e1004564, 2015.

Price LB, Stegger M, Hasman H, Aziz M, Andersen PS, Pearson A, Waters AE, Foster JT, Schupp J, Gillece J, Driebe E, Liu CM, Larsen J, Springer B, Zdovc I, Battisti A, Franco A, Å»mudzki J, Schwarz S, Butaye P, Jouy E, Pomba C, Porrero C, Smith TC, Robinson AD, Weese JS, Keim P, Skov R, Aarestrup FM. . mBIO, 3(1):e00305-11, 2012.

Moritz ED, Smith TC. . Emerging Infectious Diseases, 17:742-3, 2011.

Smith TC, Harper A, Male M, Kroeger J, Tinkler G, Moritz-Korolev E, Herwaldt L, Diekema D. .  PLoS ONE, 4(1):e4258, 2009.