She conducts field and laboratory studies of Plasmodium falciparum to understand its pathogenesis. She attended SUNY–Syracuse Medical College and trained at New England Medical Center and Brigham and Women's Hospital. Daily was an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School before joining the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her laboratory studies parasite and host biology associated with malarial disease outcomes using transcriptomic and metabolomic approaches to provide novel insights into disease mechanisms. Its long-term goals are to characterize host/pathogen factors related to parasite virulence and transmission as targets of intervention.