Dr. Robert R. Pinger has been a member of the Department and Director of the Public Health Entomology Laboratory since 1977. He teaches human health, community health, drug abuse and dependence and insects and human health. He as written textbooks in community health and drug issues. His research, which is funded by a variety of external sources concerns ticks and tick-borne diseases. He served as department chair from July 1999 through June 2004.

• PhD - Entomology, Iowa State University, 1974
• MS - Entomology, Iowa State University, 1971
• BA - Life Science, San Jose State College, 1965

• F. E. Steiner, R. R. Pinger, C. N. Vann, N. Grindle, D. Civitello, K. Clay, and C. Fuqua, “Infection and Co-infection Rates of Anaplasma phagocytophilum Variants, Babesia spp., Borrelia burgdorferi, and the Rickettsial Endosymbiont in Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) from Sites in Indiana, Maine, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin,” Journal of Medical Entomology (2008), 45: 2, 289-297. View Publication
• J. F. McKenzie, R. R. Pinger, and J. E. Kotecki, An Introduction to Community Health (Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers, Inc., 2008), 646. View Publication
• R. R. Pinger, "Protecting your safety, Chapter 15," in Focus on Health (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2007), 487.
• R. R. Pinger, "Protecting your safety, Chapter 9," in Understanding Your Health (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2007), 543.
• F. S. Steiner, R. R. Pinger, C. N. Vann, M. J. Abley, B. Sullivan, N. Grindle, K. Clay, and C. Fuqua, "Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Babesia odocoilei DNA in Ixodes scapularis Say (Acari: Ixodidae) collected in Indiana," Journal of Medical Entomology (2006), 43: 2, 437-442.
• R. P. Irving, R. R. Pinger, C. N. Vann, J. B. Olesen, and F. E. Steiner, "Distribution of Ehrlichia chaffeensis (Rickettsiales: Rickettsiaeceae) in Amblyomma americanum in southern Indiana and prevalence of E. chaffeensis-reactive antibodies in white-tailed deer in Indiana and Ohio in 1998," Journal of Medical Entomology (2000), 37: 4, 595-600.

• American Public Health Association
• Entomological Society of America
• Indiana Academy of Science
• Indiana Vector Control Association
• Society for Vector Ecology