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Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change
September 17, 2025
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Influence of environmental, geographic, socio-demographic, and epidemiological factors on presence of malaria at the community level in two continents
August 20, 2024
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EPI Research Day 2024
March 8, 2024
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Modelling the effects of climate and climate change on transmission of vector-borne disease
January 22, 2024
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Trends in mosquito species distribution modeling: insights for vector surveillance and disease control
October 10, 2023
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Mundis
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GeoGators featured in EPI Exchange Newsletter
February 21, 2023
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Characterizing the Vector Data Ecosystem
February 15, 2023
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Welcome to the Vector Data Ecosystem
February 14, 2023
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QDEC Lab
VectorByte
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Co-learning during the co-creation of a dengue early warning system for the health sector in Barbados
January 13, 2022
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BMJ Global Health
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Warning
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UFGeog at AAG 2021
April 5, 2021
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American Association of Geographers
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Seattle
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Scoping review of distribution models for selected Amblyomma ticks and rickettsial group pathogens
February 17, 2021
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MedGeo
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PeerJ
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International Day of Women and Girls in Science
February 11, 2021
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Myrmecology, Gender, and Geography
September 2, 2020
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Myrmecological News
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Summarizing the Research and Knowledge Gaps for Mosquito-borne Arboviruses in Ecuador
August 28, 2020
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Practica Familiar Rural
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Meet the Geographer: Cat Lippi
July 13, 2020
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Interdisciplinary Collaborations Required: Teaching Health Educators Infectious Disease Dynamics
July 8, 2020
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Featured Creatures Article on Asian bush mosquito Aedes japonicus japonicus
June 8, 2020
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New study shows how malaria risk will shift in Africa under climate change
May 4, 2020
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Shifting transmission risk for malaria in Africa with climate change: a framework for planning and intervention
May 1, 2020
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Spatiotemporal Tools for Emerging and Endemic Disease Hotspots in Small Areas: An Analysis of Dengue and Chikungunya in Barbados, 2013–2016
April 27, 2020
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Featured Creatures Article on Bromeliad Mosquito Wyeomyia vanduzeei
April 17, 2020
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Florida
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Novel Network Approach to Mosquito Control Distribution Yields Insights for a City in Southern Ecuador
February 24, 2020
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Blackburn
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Ecuador
Ecuadorian Ministry of Health
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International Journal of Health Geographics
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Machala
Mao
MedGeo
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QDEC Lab
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MedGeo researchers present at EPI Research Day
February 13, 2020
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SEER Lab
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A network analysis framework to improve the delivery of mosquito abatement services in Machala, Ecuador
February 11, 2020
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Ecuadorian Ministry of Health
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Announcing The Navi-Gator, Issue 4!
February 1, 2020
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MedGeo
Medical Geography in Global Health
Merz
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South Africa
The Navi-Gator
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University of Florida in South Africa
University of Pittsburgh
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Announcing The Navi-Gator, Issue 3!
January 9, 2020
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Little Family Student Fellowship Award
McCleery
MedGeo
parks
Ryan Poehling Award for Top Graduate Student
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The Navi-Gator
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Insecticide Resistance Threatens the Control of Mosquito-Borne Disease in Ecuador
June 24, 2019
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Center for Research on Health in Latin America (CISeAL) at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE)
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dengue
dengue fever
Ecuador
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Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL)
inseciticdes
insecticide resistance
Institute for Global Health and Translational Science at SUNY Upstate Medical University
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Machala
Malathion
MedGeo
mosquito
mosquitoes
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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
public health
QDEC Lab
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Sippy
southern Ecuador
Universidad Técnica de Machala
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Seasonal and geographic variation in insecticide resistance in Aedes aegypti in southern Ecuador
June 10, 2019
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Ecuador
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Malathion
MedGeo
mosquitoes
Mundis
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
public and occupational health
Ryan
Sippy
variant genotypes
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New maps show where mosquitoes will invade Ecuador’s Andes mountains
April 25, 2019
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Ecuador
Emerging Pathogens Institute
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SUNY Upstate Medical University
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Social-Ecological Factors Drive Dengue and Mosquito Presence in the Galapagos
March 8, 2019
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International Journal of Environmental and Public Health
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Nonlinear and delayed impacts of climate on dengue risk in Barbados: A modelling study
July 17, 2018
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Caribbean Health-Climatic Bulletin
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MedGeo
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PLOS Medicine
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UF Researchers Make New Strides in Predicting Dengue Fever Outbreaks
July 17, 2018
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UFGeog at AAG 2018
March 16, 2018
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Mao
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McKay
Merz
Mollalo
Mossa
Muir
New Orleans
Ryam
Ryan
Smith
Sounny
Southworth
Waylen
Wu
Yang
Zhou
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New research models temperature-driven Zika, dengue, and chikungunya transmission
May 10, 2017
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Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Epidemic Predictions Initiative (CDC EPI)
chikungunya
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EEID
infectious disease
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National Science Foundation (NSF)
National Science Foundation Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
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Disentangling the Influence of Urbanization and Invasion on Endemic Geckos in Tropical Biodiversity Hot Spots: A Case Study of Phyllodactylus martini (Squamata: Phyllodactylidae) along an Urban Gradient in Curaçao
October 9, 2016
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Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History
Curaçao
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