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Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases

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The Vector-borne, Parasitic and Zoonotic Diseases subsection encompasses a range of diseases caused by parasitic organisms with diverse life histories. These diseases result from infection of a human host by bacterial, viral, unicellular or fungal organisms. These infections can arise from human to human transmission, animal to human transmission (zoonotic) as well as animal to human or human to human transmission by blood feeding arthropods (vector-borne).

Faculty of Interest

  • Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Trypanosomiasis, African
    • Tsetse Flies
    • Global Health
    • One Health
  • Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Babesia
    • Babesiosis
    • Biological Evolution
    • Borrelia
    • Chikungunya virus
    • Climate
    • Climate Change
    • Epidemiology
    • Evolution, Planetary
    • Global Health
    • Insect Vectors
    • Lyme Disease
    • Parasitology
    • Public Health
    • Ticks
  • Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Epidemiology
    • Disease Outbreaks
    • Directed Molecular Evolution
    • Genetics, Microbial
    • Aedes
    • Arthropod Vectors
    • Chikungunya virus
    • Culex
    • Dengue Virus
    • Molecular Sequence Data
    • West Nile virus
    • RNA Viruses
  • Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)

    Research Interests
    • Transcriptional Activation
    • Trypanosoma
    • Trypanosomiasis, African
    • Parasites
    • Antigenic Variation
    • Gene Expression Regulation
  • Senior Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases), in Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and in Pediatrics (Infectious Disease) and Lecturer in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Affiliated faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Infectious Disease Medicine
    • Lyme Disease
    • Epidemiology
    • Diseases
    • Borrelia burgdorferi
    • Biostatistics
    • Blood Transfusion
    • Babesiosis
    • Relapsing Fever
  • Senior Research Scientist in Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Head Curator of Entomology (Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History)

    Research Interests
    • Honduras
    • Insect Vectors
    • Malaria
    • Leishmaniasis
    • Leishmaniasis, Cutaneous
    • Leishmaniasis, Visceral
    • Biological Evolution
    • DDT
    • Colombia
    • Communicable Diseases, Emerging
    • Genetics
    • Global Health
    • Guatemala
    • Entomology
    • El Salvador
    • West Nile virus
    • Yellow Fever
  • John Rodman Paul Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Genomics
    • RNA Interference
    • Tropical Medicine
    • Trypanosomiasis, African
    • Parasitic Diseases
  • Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Affiliate Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Dengue
    • Arbovirus Infections
    • Coinfection
    • Tick-Borne Diseases
    • Vector Borne Diseases
    • Zika Virus Infection
  • Senior Research Scientist in Epidemiology and Lecturer (Microbial Diseases); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Interests
    • Host-Pathogen Interactions
    • Symbiosis
    • Trypanosomiasis
    • Tsetse Flies

Secondary & Adjunct Faculty

  • Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Microbial Pathogenesis; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Section Chief, Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine

    Research Interests
    • Ehrlichiosis
    • Global Health
    • Epidemiology
    • Borrelia burgdorferi
    • Bacteria
    • Infectious Disease Medicine
    • Lyme Disease
    • Malaria Vaccines
    • Viruses
    • Ticks
    • Parasitology
    • Public Health
    • West Nile virus