Susan P. Fisher-Hoch speaks fluent French, and Italian, and some Spanish. She works as a professor of epidemiology in Brownsville, Texas, where she and her husband, Joe McCormick, established the new Brownsville campus of the UT School of Public Health in 2001.

Meanwhile, she has over the years contributed many chapters to major textbooks, written review articles, reviewed for several journals, and has more than 100 major publications. With her husband, Joe McCormick she has published a popular account of their adventures (Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC) which has sold more than 70,000 copies, was translated into seven languages, and is widely read by young, aspiring scientists, particularly women.