Kozik briefed journalists in July 2024: How to Cover the “Summer Wave” of COVID-19. 

Ariangela Kozik is an assistant professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, and the Department of Internal Medicine – Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Michigan. Her laboratory studies the respiratory microbiome and leverages multi-omic strategies to interrogate host-microbe and microbe-microbe crosstalk in the human airway to better understand chronic respiratory disease. She is also passionate about transforming systems to sustain future generations of research scientists. Dr. Kozik believes that increasing public engagement with science and the scientific process is critical to a thriving society, and her science communication efforts have included audiences from elementary school students to adults.