Geography
Spatial structure, movement, landscape processes, and geographic variation.
GeoEpi Research Group
GEOGRAPHICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
Disease science across scales.
GeoEpi studies the ecology, transmission, spread, and management of animal diseases using spatial epidemiology, statistical and mathematical modeling, bioinformatics, simulation, and computational science.
FOUR CONNECTED PERSPECTIVES
From molecular signals to landscapes.
GeoEpi brings complementary scientific perspectives together to understand animal disease systems.
Epidemiology
Transmission, outbreak dynamics, surveillance, and population-level disease patterns.
Modeling
Statistical, mathematical, simulation, and computational approaches to disease systems.
Ecology
Hosts, pathogens, environments, populations, and the ecological processes linking them.
A GEOGRAPHICAL VIEW OF DISEASE
Process leaves a spatial signature.
Disease patterns are not simply points on a map. Movement, transmission, environment, population structure, evolution, and landscape connectivity can leave recognizable spatial signatures in observations. GeoEpi develops quantitative approaches to identify those signatures and connect observed pattern to biological process.
We do not treat geography as the backdrop to disease. We treat it as part of the biology.
Molecular signals hosts populations landscapes decisions
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