NSF Funding UF Research on Climate Change Impacts on Vectorborne Disease

Posted on September 21, 2015

GAINESVILLE, Florida — A new 5 year multi-institutional collaborative research grant of $1.85 million funded by the National Science Foundation’s Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (NSF EEID) program will support research on the effect of temperature on 13 different diseases transmitted by insects. It will also measure the capacity for two common disease-carrying mosquitoes […]

Audrey Culver Smith

audreyculver@ufl.edu State of Origin: Florida Degree Program: PhD Entered program: Fall 2014 Expected Graduation: Fall 2022 Advisor: Dr. Jane Southworth Research Interests/Areas of Interest: Medical geography; the interplay of human behavior, the environment and climate on health outcomes and disease incidence; spatial analysis of disease distribution and risk; social and health inequity; gender and development.

Bacillus anthracis Diversity and Geographic Potential across Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad: Further Support of a Novel West African Lineage

Posted on August 20, 2015

BLACKBURN – Bacillus anthracis Diversity and Geographic Potential across Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad: Further Support of a Novel West African Lineage Jason K. Blackburn , Moses Ode Odugbo, Matthew Van Ert, Bob O’Shea, Jocelyn Mullins, Vincent Perrenten, Angaya Maho, Martin Hugh-Jones, Ted Hadfield Published: 20 August 2015 in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003931 ABSTRACT: Zoonoses, diseases […]

Dr. Greg Glass – Emeritus

Dr. Greg Glass Professor Emeritus gglass@ufl.edu Focus Areas Focus Area 2: Medical Geography in Global Health (MGGH) Areas of Specialization Medical Geography Risk factor analysis Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases Educational Background Post-Doctoral Fellow in Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University, 1986 PhD in Systematics & Ecology, University of Kansas, 1983 MPhil in Systematics & […]

Dr. Sadie J. Ryan

Dr. Sadie J. Ryan Associate Professor, Medical Geography she/her/hers Curriculum Vitae Principal Investigator, Emerging Pathogens Institute Co-Director, Florida Climate Institute at UF Director, Quantitative Disease Ecology & Conservation Lab (QDEC Lab) sjryan@ufl.edu Twitter: @SadieRyan Focus Areas Focus Area 1: Earth System Science Focus Area 2: Medical Geography in Global Health (MGGH) Areas of Specialization Medical […]

Residential Normalcy and the Enriched Coping Repertoires of Successfully Aging Older Adults

Posted on May 18, 2014

GOLANT – Residential Normalcy and the Enriched Coping Repertoires of Successfully Aging Older Adults Stephen M. Golant Article first published online: 18 MAY 2014 The Gerontologist DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnu036 ABSTRACT: An earlier theoretical model equated the construct of residential normalcy with older persons positively appraising their residential environments. Failing to achieve congruent places to live, they initiate assimilative (action) or […]

Undergraduate Certificates

Undergraduate Certificates The Department of Geography offers undergraduate certificates in Geographic Artificial Intelligence & Big Data, Geospatial Information Analysis, Medical Geography, and Meteorology and Climatology. Interested in a certificate? Please read our frequently asked questions before you apply. Certificate FAQ (opens in new tab) GeoAI: Geographic Artificial Intelligence & Big Data Certificate The integration of […]

Dr. Dawn Nekorchuk

Email: nekodm@ufl.edu State of Origin: Hawaii and Massachusetts Degree Program: PhD Advisor: Dr. Jason Blackburn and Dr. Liang Mao Entered Program: Fall 2012 Dissertation Topic: Animal movement modeling in a natural anthrax system Research Interests: Medical Geography, infectious disease modeling, agent-based modeling, One Health, Global Health

Dr. Lillian Morris

Email: lillianmorris@ufl.edu State of origin: Maryland Degree Program: PhD Advisor: Dr. Jason Blackburn Entered Program: Fall 2011 Thesis/Dissertation Topic: Plague in Azerbaijan Areas of/Research Interests: Spatial epidemiology and ecology

Dr. Liang Mao

Associate Professor Undergraduate Coordinator liangmao@ufl.edu Tel: (352) 294-7516 (Office) Personal Website; Google Scholar; Curriculum Vita Focus Areas Focus Area 2: Medical Geography in Global Health (MGGH) Focus Area 3: Places, Networks, & Flows Research Statement My research aims to offer better understandings on the human-disease system with geospatial science approaches and technologies. My research interests focus on: […]

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