Natural disasters like hurricanes, droughts, and floods are becoming increasingly frequent and severe as a result of global climate change and human activities. Perhaps more…
The control and prediction of emerging pathogens are major challenges for the health and safety of the public, as they are among the most unpredictable…
Transmission trees describe who infected whom during outbreaks of infectious diseases (see example tree below). These data are routinely collected through resource intensive methods including…
A variety of generic indicators have been proposed to identify gradual changes in a population that can be used to anticipate the onset or conclusion…
Socio-demographic, and not environmental, risk factors explain fine-scale spatial patterns of diarrheal disease in Ifanadiana, rural Madagascar Diarrheal disease (DD) is responsible for over 700,000…
Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease that impairs the physical and cognitive development of more than 200 million individuals globally, as a result of physiological disruptions…
Second order statistics such as variance and autocorrelation can in principle provide early warning of disease (re-)emergence. Such statistics can detect the approach to an…
The introduced fungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans causes White-nose syndrome in North American bats, putting some populations at risk for extinction or extirpation. The severity of…
On January 24, 2020, the The Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases at the University of Georgia formed the Coronavirus Working Group, a group of about 20…
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…