Sydney Redepenning is a researcher at CIDRAP and works as a co-producer for the Osterholm Update podcast, as a teaching assistant for CIDRAP's undergraduate classes, and on a variety of other projects, including CIDRAP's Influenza Vaccine Roadmap Research & Development Funding Tracker.
Ms. Redepenning joined CIDRAP in December 2019 as an undergraduate student worker. After completing her BS in Health and Wellbeing Sciences in 2022, she continued working at CIDRAP as a graduate research assistant. She completed her MS in environmental health in January 2024. Her thesis focused on the association between different sources of pandemic information and pandemic-related beliefs and behaviors among US college students. In addition to her CIDRAP work, she is pursuing a PhD in environmental health.