Pathogen Transmission Dynamics among Wildlife and Human Settlements in Rural Western Uganda
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Funding Fogarty Program
Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID)
Project Information in NIH RePORTER
Pathogen Transmission Dynamics among Wildlife and Human Settlements in Rural Western Uganda
Principal Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Principal Investigator(s) (PI)
Stumpf, Rebecca
Project Contact Information
Email:
rstumpf@uiuc.edu
Year(s) Awarded
2024-2029
Country
Uganda
Project Description
Results from our surveillance sampling, phylodynamics, advanced computational tools and predictive transmission will provide knowledge of disease transmission in a spillover hotspot. Our protocol will demonstrate how tools and predictive models will provide knowledge of disease transmission pathways in complex environments.
The work will enable future research targeting dangerous but rare pathogens, such as single-stranded RNA viruses of zoonotic origin (e.g., Ebola). Transmission dynamics of viral pathogens will inform proactive health and conservation policies to reduce cross-species disease transmission at a time of increasing climate change and human-wildlife.
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