GH009
Environment, Pathogenic Agents, and Infectious Diseases
Session ID#: 82052
Session Description:
This interdisciplinary session focuses on understanding the environmental processes in creating favorable conditions for exposure to pathogenic agents (e.g. bacteria, viruses, and parasites) that lead to outbreaks of environmentally modulated infectious diseases. The session aims at expanding our knowledge-base on using big data, mathematical models, and high-performance computing to help predicting disease outbreaks. Contributions are solicited that deal with boundaries of climate, public health, biology, biostatistics, environmental microbiology etc. Papers are invited that deal with diseases such as (but not limited to) Cholera, Schistosomiasis, Zika, Dengue, Malaria, West Nile, Influenza, Lyme etc. The session will also focus on issues of ecological water quality on human health.
Index Terms:
0230 Impacts of climate change: human health [GEOHEALTH]
0240 Public health [GEOHEALTH]
0245 Vector born diseases [GEOHEALTH]
1813 Eco-hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener: Rakibul Khan, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
Conveners: Andrew Gronewold, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, United States, Erin Mordecai, Stanford University, Department of Biology, Stanford, CA, United States and C. Brandon Ogbunu, Brown University, Providence, United States
Primary Liaison: Rakibul Khan, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
Mosquito and primate ecology predict human risk of yellow fever virus spillover in Brazil (503368)
Marissa Childs1, Nicole Nova2, Justine Colvin2 and Erin Mordecai2, (1)Stanford University, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Department of Biology, Stanford, CA, United States
Advances in modeling disease-environmental relationships: applying thin-plate splines in “big additive models” to predict malaria in the Amhara region of Ethiopia (507664)
Justin Davis1, Dawn M Nekorchuk2 and Michael C Wimberly1, (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Geography and Environmental Sustainability, Norman, OK, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma, Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, Norman, OK, United States
Large-scale Water-related Land Cover Data Product for Risk Assessment of Zoonotic Infectious Disease Transmission Dynamics (512298)
Xiangming Xiao, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, Geli Zhang, China Agricultural University, College of Land Science and Technology, Beijing, China, Jinwei Dong, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Zhenhua Zou, University of Oklahoma, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Center for Spatial Analysis, Norman, OK, United States, Xinxin WANG, Fudan University, Shanghai, China and Marius Gilbert, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Biological Threat Agents in the Environment: Detection, Fate, and Transport of Toxoplasma gondii in Soils (516358)
Christophe J G Darnault1, Erin N Kinsey1, Sohib Gouasmia2, Caroline Korte1, Timothy Mutty1, Christian Patrick Pullano1, Coralie L'Ollivier3,4, Jitender P. Dubey5 and Aurélien Dumètre2, (1)Clemson University, Department of Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Clemson, SC, United States, (2)Aix-Marseille University, UMR IRD 257 Vecteurs - Infections Tropicales et Méditerranéennes (VITROME), IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France, (3)Aix Marseille University, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, VITROME, Marseille, France, (4)AP-HM, Parasitology Laboratory, Timone Hospital, Marseille, France, (5)USDA Agricultural Research Service, Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, United States
Can Green Infrastructure Decrease Gastrointestinal and Mosquito Borne Illnesses in Areas Surrounding Combined Sewer Overflows? (525332)
Alisha Yee Chan, Yale University, Environmental Engineering, New Haven, CT, United States and Michelle L Bell, Yale University, Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT, United States
Microbial Metagenomic Evidence on Increased Bacterial Pathogenicity in Bioremediation Microbial Consortium Agents Selectively Enriched by Toxic Chemicals (538391)
Jihoon Yang1, Jaejin Lee2, Adina Howe2, Keunje Yoo3, Muhammad Imran Khan4 and Joonhong Park1, (1)Yonsei University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seoul, South Korea, (2)Iowa State University, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Ames, United States, (3)Columbia University of New York, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Palisades, United States, (4)University of Agriculture, Institute of Soil and Environmental Sciences, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Predicting the thermal dependencies of infectious disease with the metabolic theory of ecology (Invited) (547795)
Devin Kirk1, Pepijn Luijckx2, Natalie Jones3, Leila Krichel4, Clara Pencer4, Peter Molnar5 and Martin Krkosek4, (1)Stanford University, Biology, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, (3)University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, (4)University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, (5)University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Canada
Identifying environmental risk factors for Malaria: Scale matters! (554716)
Andrea Hess1, Dawn M Nekorchuk2, Justin Davis3, Worku Awoke4, Abere Mihretie5, Aklilu Getinet5, Teklehaimanot Gebrehiwot6, Adem Agmas Ahmed7 and Michael C Wimberly8, (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, Norman, OK, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma, Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, Norman, OK, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Geography and Environmental Sustainability, Norman, OK, United States, (4)Bahir Dar University, School of Public Health, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, (5)Health, Development, and Anti-Malaria Association, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, (6)Amhara National Regional State Health Bureau, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, (7)Malaria Control and Elimination partnership in Africa, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, (8)South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, United States
Climate, human population density, and land cover link the distributions of two globally important dengue vectors from local to continental scales (Invited) (596016)
Christopher Anderson1, Erin Mordecai2, Lisa Mandle3, Jeffrey R Smith1 and Gretchen Daily2, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Department of Biology, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)Natural Capital Project, Stanford University, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford, CA, United States
Spatial Dynamics of Vector-borne Disease Risk in Costa Rica: Examining the Role of Anthropogenic Landscapes, Indigenous Territories, and Protected Areas in a Biodiversity Hotspot (600804)
Brett Bayles1, Maria Alvarez Pineda2, Keira Dagy2, Emma Kelly2, Serena Martin2 and Carlos Faerron3, (1)Dominican University of California, Global Public Health, San Rafael, CA, United States, (2)Dominican University of California, Global Public Health, San Rafael, United States, (3)Interamerican Center for Global Health (CISG), San Vito, Costa Rica
The GLOBE Zika Education and Prevention Project: An Interdisciplinary Project (614062)
Kristin Wegner1, Anthony Murphy2, Amy Barfield3, Lyn Wigbels4, Julie Malmberg5 and Travis Jay Andersen1,3, (1)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)GLOBE Implementation Office, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)GLOBE Program, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)The GLOBE Program/UCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
Development of a hyper-resolution mathematical model for monitoring and forecasting of adult mosquito (633535)
Rakibul Khan1, Noemi Vergopolan2, Eric F Wood2, Scott Crans3, Lisa Reed4 and Kim Cervantes5, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)Administrator, Department of Environmental Protection, Trenton, United States, (4)Field Researcher, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States, (5)Program Coordinator, NJDOH, Trenton, United States
