Speaker: Dr. Sadie Ryan
Associate Professor
Department of Geography
University of Florida
Thursday, March 2, 2023
3:00-3:50 PM (Period 8)
Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom
University of Florida
Abstract: This talk is an overview of work from around a decade of collaborations on ecophysiological models of thermal responses of mosquito borne diseases, and approaches to understanding the distribution of vector-borne diseases and their responses to modeled climate change on landscapes. I offer this as a set of case studies of tools in the toolbox of predicting disease emergence and spread, and a platform to think about communicating these environmentally informed mapped model outcomes as ‘risk’ which speaks to decision making for prevention and intervention.
Biography: Sadie J. Ryan is an Associate Professor of Medical Geography in the Department of Geography and in the Emerging Pathogens Institute (EPI) at the University of Florida, PI of the Quantitative Disease Ecology and Conservation (QDEC) Lab group (www.sadieryan.net), and co-director of the UF Florida Climate Institute.
All are welcome to attend.
For more information, email Dr. Sadie Ryan at sjryan@ufl.edu