Emerging Pathogens Institute - University of Florida

The livestock–childhood gut health link

Microbiome

Research Day recap

Events

The (accidental) marine disease ecologist

Parasites

2006

EPI was created in 2006 to facilitate interdisciplinary studies of emergence and control of human, animal and plant pathogens of concern to the world.

In Thailand, dengue is no longer mostly a childhood disease

Disease dynamics

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EPI collaborates with over 250 faculty members from around the world annually.

What happens when we pass human diseases to animals?

Zoonotics

UF study tracks dengue and West Nile viruses in South Florida mosquitoes

Arboviruses

Tracking coronavirus in wastewater

Public health

City-dwelling mammals no likelier than wild mammals to harbor human diseases

UF medical geographer Sadie Ryan contributes to a global consortium's effort to determine whether city-dwelling or wild mammals carry more viruses capable of making people ill

Natural disasters, stress, and health

UF mathematician Burton Singer contributed to a conceptual framework that can link physiological factors related to stress with negative health outcomes following natural disasters

Scientific Publications

The faculty and affiliate members of the Emerging Pathogens Institute are heavily involved in scientific research and communicate their findings in some of the world's most prestigious journals. Find the current year's publications, and past year's archives, here.