Durland Fish is emeritus professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health. He holds a master’s degree in entomology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a doctorate in entomology and ecology from the University of Florida. After receiving a U.S. National Institutes of Health fellowship to study vector ecology at the University of Notre Dame, he became assistant professor at Fordham University in New York, associate professor at New York Medical College, and professor at Yale.