Dr. Timothy A. Erickson is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. He is a two-time graduate of Texas A&M (BS, Bioenvironmental Sciences/Plant Pathology and Microbiology and Soil and Crop Sciences, MSPH, Epidemiology). Dr. Erickson also holds an MS in Microbiology and Cell Science from the University of Florida and a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Prior to joining A&M, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education/Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, working at Texas Children’s Hospital. Dr. Erickson's primary research interests center on infectious and neuroinflammatory diseases, parasitic diseases, Rickettsial diseases, neuroinvasive diseases, neuroinflammatory conditions, biomarker identification, infectious disease ecology, and clinical application tool development.