Anna Alari is an environmental epidemiologist with a PhD from the Institut Pasteur in Paris, where she studied the spatial and temporal dynamics of pneumococcal meningitis and vaccine impact. She completed postdoctoral research at the University of California San Diego and later at ISGlobal in Barcelona, focusing on the effects of heat, air pollution, and environmental exposures on mortality and respiratory infections. Her work focuses on understanding the impacts of climate change and air pollution on health, with a particular interest in the role of environmental factors in the transmission and seasonality of infectious diseases.