People

Group Leader

Joseph Eisenberg, Ph.D., M.P.H.

jasoneg@umich.edu

Research Staff

Sharon Boylan

William Cevallos Trujillo, MD, MSc

Dr. Cevallos is a co-investigator and Project Director for the EcoDess Project in Ecuador. He has experience working on investigations of tropical diseases such as leishmaniasis and malaria, in both clinical and epidemiological aspects. He received his M.Sc. in Tropical Medicine from Fundao Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil in 2001.

wcevallos@usfq.edu.ec

Ian Spicknall

Alan Hubbard, PhD

Dr. Alan Hubbard is Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at U.C. Berkeley School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences.

hubbard@stat.berkeley.edu

Aaron A. King, PhD

Dr. Aaron King received his Ph.D degree in 1999 from the Program in Applied Mathematics at the University of Arizona. He was awarded a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in 2000 and used it to work with Alan Hastings at the University of California in Davis for two years before taking an assistant professorship in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in 2002. He joined the faculty here at the University of Michigan in 2005 where he holds joint appointments in the Department of Mathematics and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems.

kingaa@umich.edu

Renato Leon, PhD

Dr. Leon is a medical entomologist, and has experience with entomological collections, vector competence and vector taxonomy. Dr. Leon developed expertise in arbovirology during his doctoral studies in Microbiology at the Ohio University Tropical Disease Institute and Postdoctoral training as a National Research Council (NRC) associate at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA. Dr. Leon is the Director of the Medical Entomology lab at the Institute of Microbiology at USFQ, providing insectary space and assistance with mosquito laboratory work.

renatol@mail.usfq.edu.ec

Karen Levy, PhD, MPH, MSc

Dr. Karen Levy is Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Epidemiology at the Emory Rollins School of Public Health. Dr. Levy is currently engaged in research on the epidemiology of waterborne disease with an emphasis on household water quality, transmission of enteric waterborne pathogens, and the impacts of climate on the incidence of waterborne disease.

karen.levy@emory.edu

Stephen P. Luby, MD

Dr. Stephen Luby is Head of the Program on Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Sciences at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDB). He is seconded from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and functions as the Head of Agency for the Centers for Disease Control in Bangladesh. He also holds a position as Adjunct Associate Professor at the Emory Rollins School of Public Health. Dr. Luby was assigned to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control from 1990 to 1991, where he investigated numerous disease outbreaks. He worked in the Malaria branch of the CDC for one year (1992). From 1993 to 1998, Dr. Luby directed the epidemiology unit of the Community Health Sciences Department at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan. From 1998 - 2004 Dr. Luby worked as a Medical Epidemiologist in the Foodborne and Diarrheal Diseases Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, where his research was focused on addressing the causes and prevention of diarrheal disease in settings where diarrhea is a leading cause of childhood death.

sluby@icddrb.org

Rishab Mahajan rishab.civil@gmail.com

Christine L. Moe, PhD

Dr. Christine Moe is Associate Professor in the Departments of Global Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Dr. Moe's main focus is on applied research in environmental transmission of infectious agents, specifically waterborne and foodborne disease, and the relationship between water, sanitation and health. In the area of infectious disease, she covers enteric infections.

clmoe@sph.emory.edu

Kara L. Nelson, PhD, MSE

Dr. Kara Nelson is Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at U.C. Berkeley. Professor Nelson teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on water and wastewater treatment processes and ecological engineering, as well as a graduate course on the control of water-related pathogens. Dr. Nelson's research interests include natural systems for water and wastewater treatment, the detection and inactivation of pathogens in water and sludge, and appropriate technologies for improving water quality in developing countries.

nelson@ce.berkeley.edu

Mark Nicas, PhD, MPH, CIH

Dr. Mark Nicas is Adjunct Professor of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the U.C. Berkeley School of Public Health. Dr. Nicas has two primary research interests. First, he develops mathematical models to estimate exposure intensity to airborne chemical toxicants. Such models consider the pollutant emission rate and the dispersion pattern in air. Dr. Nicas uses two approaches - a traditional method based on deterministic differential equations and a probabilistic method involving Markov chain techniques. Second, he develops probability models for infection by airborne pathogens (e.g., M. tuberculosis, Y. pestis, C. immitis), with an immediate application to the risk-based selection of personal respiratory protection. Past research involved probability modeling of variability in the efficiency of personal respiratory protection, and theoretical risk analyses for M. tuberculosis infection and disease incidence among health care workers.

mnicas@berkeley.edu

Travis C. Porco, PhD, MPH

Dr. Travis Porco is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Division of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Department of Ophthalmology at the Francis I Proctor Institute for Research in Ophthalmology. Dr. Porco is also Lecturer of Mathematical Epidemiology at the U.C. Berkeley School of Public Health. Dr. Porco's research interests include mathematical modeling, simulation, and forecasting of infectious diseases.

travis.porco@ucsf.edu

Josep M. Pujol, PhD, MSc

Currently, Dr. Josep Pujol is a post-doc at the Department of Epidemiology and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan. Before that he was a member of the Knowledge Engineering and Learning Group (KEMLg) group in the Software Department (LSI) at the Technical University of Catalonia (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya UPC).

jmpujol@umich.edu

Lee Riley, MD

Dr. Lee Riley is Professor of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, and Chair in the Division of Infectious Diseases & Vaccinology at the U.C. Berkeley School of Public Health. Dr. Riley's research interests include the pathogenesis of mycobacterial and enteric pathogens, molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis and drug-resistant gram-negative bacterial infections, and field epidemiology and international health, focused on slum health.

lwriley@berkeley.edu

Joan B. Rose, PhD

Dr. Joan Rose serves as the Homer Nowlin Chair in Water Research at Michigan State University, the Co-Director of the Center for Advancing Microbial Risk Assessment (CAMRA) and the Director of the Center for Water Sciences (CWS). Dr. Rose received her B.S., in 1976 from University of Arizona, her MS from University of Wyoming in 1980 and Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Arizona in 1985. She served as a Professor in the College of Marine Science, University of South Florida (USF) from 1998-2002 and Associate Professor, Department of Marine Science, USF from 1994-1997. In 1995, she was an Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, USF, and from 1986-1989, she served as Research Associate/Lecturer, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, UAZ. Dr. Rose is an international expert in water microbiology, water quality and public health safety publishing more than 250 manuscripts. She has been involved in the investigation of numerous waterborne outbreaks world-wide. Her work has examined new molecular methods for waterborne pathogens and zoonotic agents such as Cryptosporidium and enteric viruses and source tracking techniques. She has been involved in the study of water supplies, water used for food production, and coastal environments as well as drinking water treatment, wastewater treatment, reclaimed water and water reuse. She specifically interested in microbial pathogen transport in coastal systems and risks to recreational waters. She has been involved in the study of climate factors on water quality. Dr. Rose has been involved in the development of quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) frameworks, methods and data sets and considered one of the international experts in this evolving arena.

rosejo@msu.edu

James C. Scott, PhD, MPH, MA

Dr. James Scott is Assistant Professor of Statistics at Colby College. Dr. Scott's current research includes modeling HIV transmission, estimating the global burden of food-borne disease mortality, and determining the impact of water quality and sanitation improvements on disease transmission.

jimscott73@gmail.com

Carl Simon, PhD

Carl P. Simon is Professor of Mathematics, Economics, and Public Policy. His research interests center around mathematical models which involve natural dynamics or motion over time. He has applied dynamic modeling to the movements of an economy over time, the spread of AIDS, and the evolution of biological and economic systems. Carl has also conducted research on how political office holders manipulate economic parameters to achieve their goals. In May 1999, the University established the Center for the Study of Complex Systems and appointed Carl director. He is co-author of a textbook Mathematics for Economists. Carl teaches calculus and operations research at the Ford School. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University.

cpsimon@umich.edu

Jeffrey A. Soller

Prior to founding Soller Environmental, Mr. Soller was a Risk Policy Fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science where he collaborated with US EPA Office of Water and Office of Research & Development to integrate risk-based science into national environmental policies related to human health effects associated with water-borne contamination. From 1996 to 2004, Mr. Soller was a Senior Scientist and Team Leader at Eisenberg, Olivieri, and Associates.

jsoller@sollerenvironmental.com

James A. Trostle, PhD, MPH, MA

Dr. James Trostle is Professor of Anthropology at Trinity College. Dr. Trostle came to Trinity College in 1998, after helping manage a large international health program at the Harvard Institute for International Development from 1988 to 1995, and working as a Five College Professor and Founding Director of the Five College Program in Culture, Health and Science between 1995 and 1998 in Massachusetts. From 2001-3 he was also Professor at the National Institute of Public Health in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

James.Trostle@trincoll.edu

Gabriel Trueba, PhD

Dr. Gabriel Trueba received his PhD in Microbiology from Iowa State University and carried out post-doctoral research at the University of Minnesota before returning to Ecuador, where he is a faculty member in the Institute of Microbiology at USFQ. He also has a veterinary degree.

gabriel@mail.usfq.edu.ec

James G. Uber, PhD

Dr. James Uber is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Cincinnati College of Engineering. Dr. Uber conducts research in the area of environmental and water resources systems analysis. His work involves the development and application of numerical methods, and mathematical optimization approaches, for the simulation, design, control, and operation of complex environmental and water resource systems.