Chantal Reed has a degree in public health and is the author of Infected: A History of Disease, a video course on the history of infectious disease for students in grades 6 to 12. She writes and teaches about how outbreaks shaped modern public health, how disease history is taught to young people, and why secular families struggle to find rigorous science curriculum.

Chantal Reed has a degree in public health and is the author of Infected: A History of Disease, a video course on the history of infectious disease for students in grades 6 to 12. She writes and teaches about how outbreaks shaped modern public health, how disease history is taught to young people, and why secular families struggle to find rigorous science curriculum. She is sitting the Certified Health Education Specialist examination in October 2026. She homeschools in Tennessee and runs The Wildhollow School, which she founded after failing to find the curriculum she wanted.