Articles by tross
CEID Welcomes John King, Project and Communications Manager
CEID is thrilled to welcome John King to as the Project & Communications Manager for our Coronavirus Working Group. John will assist our working group by helping streamline processes, coordinating communications and media requests, and helping with the strategic direction of the group. Having worked in the roles of sales, […]
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 child deaths annually and, in Madagascar, is the most common cause of death across all ages. Because the pathogens that cause DD are environmentally transmitted, spatial patterns in the burden of disease are thought to be strongly related to spatial patterns in […]
Sánchez, Ph.D. ‘19, studies how urbanization affects wildlife behavior and zoonotic disease transmission
How does human activity and urbanization affect wildlife movement and behavior? How can features of urban landscapes influence the transmission of disease among wildlife and humans? These are just a few of the questions Dr. Cecilia Sánchez seeks to answer in her research. […]
Urban-rural disparities in treatment outcomes among recurrent TB cases in Southern Province, Zambia
Summary by: Jessica Wenclawiak Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis that affects millions of people each year. Although treatments are generally successful, recurrences can occur. Some of these strains do not respond to traditional medication and increase the risk of death; these strains are known as […]
Protective Population Behavior Change in Outbreaks of Emerging Infectious Disease
Summary by: Culzean Kennedy Transmissibility serves as one of the primary indicators of the threat posed by an emergent pathogen. The incorporation of this important function into compartmental models enables researchers interested in forecasting epidemic dynamics to estimate the size of infectious and susceptible populations. Early in an epidemic, in […]