She is a public health engineer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT], B.S., 1996; M.Eng., 2001; P.E., 2003) who received her Ph.D. in 2011 from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She began working in water, sanitation, and hygiene to reduce the burden of infectious disease while earning her master’s degree, and continued working in this field teaching in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT until she joined the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2003. She completed her postdoctoral work at Harvard’s Center for International Development from 2010 to 2012, and joined Tufts University as a professor in 2012. Over the past 16 years, Dr. Lantagne provided technical assistance or