Effective public health efforts require an accurate understanding of which virus species are capable of spreading between humans or may develop this ability in the…
Host-parasite networks are built from a vast number of interactions, which may change seasonally or based on host densities. This combination of complexity and uncertainty…
To efficiently manage and prevent species invasions, we need accurate predictions of where these species can arrive and persist. Species distribution models make such predictions…
Zika is an emerging virus whose rapid spread is of great public health concern. Knowledge about transmission remains incomplete, especially concerning potential transmission in geographic…
Bifurcation delay is a phenomenon that occurs when dynamical systems go through a critical transition. Bifurcation delay occurs because the state of the system may…
The Drake lab welcomes data analysts Annakate Schatz and Spencer Hall. Annakate is an alumna of Mount Holyoke College and Spencer graduated from UGA. Both have important past experiences using data…
The majority of infectious diseases currently emerging in humans originated in mammals. Yet we still know very little about the global patterns of mammal-to-human pathogen transmission….
Preventing future outbreaks of ebolaviruses in humans and other vulnerable animal populations will require identifying the natural reservoirs of filoviruses. Accumulating indirect evidence points to…
It is now widely known that Ebola survivors may suffer chronic infections and can transmit the virus to sexual partners, but the epidemiologic implications of…
The elimination of malaria and other mosquito-borne pathogens is a major public health issue worldwide. A considerable obstacle to disease elimination in resource poor countries…