Quantitative Bioscience at the University of Tennessee

Epidemiology & Disease Ecology

Disease ecology explores the relationships between parasitic, bacterial and viral infectious diseases, their animal and human hosts, and their environment. Common themes of research in the discipline include the factors responsible for the emergence, re-emergence and persistence of diseases within animal and human populations, the factors contributing to their zoonotic or anthroponotic spread, the impact of environmental disturbance on these dynamics, and the development of new approaches to surveillance and monitoring. This highly interdisciplinary field draws from the fields of microbiology, ecology, genetics, geography, medicine, mathematics and epidemiology to better understand the interaction between hosts and pathogens.

Researcher		Department	Research Interests
	Judy Day Email	Mathematics; Electrical Engineering & Computer Science	Mathematical modeling and control, dynamical systems, model predictive control, acute inflammation/immunology
	Shigetoshi Eda Email	Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries; Associate Director, Center for Wildlife Health	Mathematical modeling of Johne's disease epidemiology and immunology, development of an onsite diagnostic system for diseases and physiological conditions
	Nina Fefferman Email	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; Mathematics; Director, Math Modeling Consulting Center	Self-organizing complex systems, mathematical and computational models of problems in epidemiology, evolutionary and behavioral ecology, conservation biology
	Louis Gross Email	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; Mathematics	Mathematical ecology. Director, NIMBioS; Director, The Institute for Environmental Modeling (TIEM)
	Kristina Kintziger Email	Public Health	Environmental health and infectious disease epidemiology, impacts of climate change on human health
	Suzanne Lenhart Email	Mathematics	Optimal control, population and environmental models, natural resource modeling, disease models
	Agricola Odoi Email	Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine	GIS and spatial epidemiology in health research and practice, zoonotic infections of public health significance, determinants of population health
	Olivia Prosper Email	Mathematics	Mathematical biology, modeling disease dynamics, population dynamics, optimal control
	Christopher Strickland Email	Mathematics, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Mathematical ecology, addiction epidemiology, data-driven mathematical modeling, computational biomath

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From 2008 until early 2021, NIMBioS was supported by the National Science Foundation through NSF Award #DBI-1300426, with additional support from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.