Kristina Kintziger joined the Water, Climate, and Health Program within the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 2022. Prior to this, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Health at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and an epidemiologist with the Florida Department of Health's Environmental Public Health Tracking and Building Resilience Against Climate Effects Programs.
Kintziger completed her PhD in epidemiology at the University of South Carolina and did a post-doctoral fellowship through the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologist’s Applied Epidemiology Fellowship Program with the Florida Department of Health. Her training includes environmental and infectious disease epidemiology and related methods, and her professional career has spanned both academia and public health practice, often integrating the two sectors. Therefore, much of her scholarly research is focused on the application of advanced epidemiologic and interdisciplinary methods to improve public health practice in environmental epidemiology, with a specific focus on climate & health and disaster epidemiology.
Kintziger was part of the public health responses to several infectious disease outbreaks and provided technical assistance to rapid needs assessments on the physical and mental health impacts on Florida residents after Hurricane Michael. She has led or collaborated on projects investigating the health impacts of climate-related disasters including flooding, hurricanes, drought, and extreme heat events.