RESEARCH
RESEARCH
Our funded projects investigate the mechanisms by which vector-borne and zoonotic diseases emerge and spread, which human and animal behaviors increase risk of spillover and transmission, how these behaviors impact changes in the environment and vice versa, and how these feedback into risk for zoonotic diseases, which interventions (behavioral, environmental, policy) are effective in preventing or reducing zoonotic disease transmission at any interface (human, animal, environment), development of predictive models that utilize realistic human and animal behavioral data combined with atmospheric and other variables, among other One Health research topics.
Select One Health Projects (and links to related products):
"Data-Driven Modeling to Improve Understanding of Human Behavior, Mobility, and Disease Spread" with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology's Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease (EEID) program. Related Publications and Media. 2022-Present
"Investigating zoonotic transmission pathways to better understand and predict the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in urban and suburban landscapes: a case study of the white-tailed deer." with support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and George Mason. Related Publications and Media. 2023-Present
"US-Israel Collab: Human and animal migration in response to weather emergencies and conflict: a structural and multiepistemic approach to modeling Brucella transmission along complex networks in Bedouin communities" with support from the U.S. National Science Foundation. Related Publications and Media. 2023-Present
"Ecology of MERS-CoV in Ethiopia" with support from the U.S. National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology's Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease (EEID) program. in collaboration with Addis Ababa Science and Technology University and Dilla University in Ethiopia, American University, University of Georgia, George Washington University, and Charite University in Berlin, Germany. Related Publications and Other Media. 2017-2024
"A Longitudinal, Source-Attribution Study of Campylobacter Emergence and Transmission in Rural Bangladesh to Inform Intervention Development" with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and George Mason University in collaboration with Child Health Research Foundation, Bangladesh and Quadram Institute Biosciences, UK. Related Publications and Other Media. 2019-Present
"SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in breast milk and disease progression in the first 6 months of life" with support from the National Institutes of Health (R21) and George Mason University. Related Publications and Media. 2021-Present
"Training of veterinarians, wildlife specialists, and laboratory scientists to conduct epidemiological studies of zoonotic disease in Egypt " with support from the U.S. Department of State. Related Publications and Media. 2012-2015
"Novel deer-associated parapoxvirus emergence in deer hunters in Virginia and Connecticut" an investigation that highlights the risks of human and wildlife interaction. 2008-2010
"Human and animal agricultural antibiotic use and animal husbandry practices in rural Bangladesh: risk factors for emerging antibiotic resistant infections" with support from the National Institutes of Health, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Small Grants Program, Johns Hopkins University Center for a Livable Future. Related Publications and Media. 2002-2008